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To: Codie
I don't mind at all.

I need no incentive. I do the right thing because my moral code - self-chosen and based on objective reality - says that any evasion of reality (which includes assuming the "right" to violate the rights of others through theft, fraud, murder, etc.) is immoral.

483 posted on 01/22/2002 11:00:36 AM PST by Doctor Doom
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To: Doctor Doom
However, your "objective reality" may not be the same as the fellow across the street.Then what? Who winds up being the the final arbitrator on what's right?
490 posted on 01/22/2002 11:53:51 AM PST by Codie
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To: Doctor Doom
I do the right thing because my moral code - self-chosen and based on objective reality -

An Objectivist?

497 posted on 01/22/2002 12:24:44 PM PST by fortheDeclaration
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