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Although I am no longer active on this forum, I was recently sent a moderation request. I decided to post this brief introduction to my involvement with the site in case it is of interest to some of the current users. I created Objectivism Online in February 2003. The original vision was much more ambitious but has gradually narrowed in scope and various social media platforms have superseded some of the original features. The initial membership came largely from connections I made at the 2003 Objectivist Summer Conference. For a number of years, this site was the primary online community for students of Objectivism on the Internet. I have not been active on the site for over 10 years, but it has continued thanks to a succession of administrators: RationalEgoistSG - he helped complete the original vision for the site in 2003. AshRyan - he organized live events and supported the forum through the rapid growth phase in 2005. softwareNerd - he has been the de-facto leader of this forum since 2006. JASKN - has been running the site since softwareNerd retired in (2015?) I'll close with some other sites that I run on the server which hosts this forum: WalletRecovery.info, my Bitcoin Wallet Recovery business Vellum Capital , a cryptocurrency hedge fund (in which I am a partner) The Free Capitalist Network, a WordPress blog network with a few dozen (free) blogs. RationalMind.net , my own blog, which was active from 2001-2013, until I co-founded Liberty.me , and set up my blog there. In addition to these projects, I am the Director of Marketing and Technology for the Foundation for Economic Education, a free market think tank founded in 1946. As I'm not currently active on the forum, if you want to contact me, you can find me on Facebook. Let me end with a plug for The Objective Standard (I've been helping Craig run the site), and the TOS-Con 2018 conference, where I will be presenting content from my forthcoming book on personal finance. It's in Richmond, VA August 16–19 2018.

Ed Younkins is another who has written on related topics.

Have you studied Edwin Locke's work? Looks like there will be a good amount of overlap.

Don't worry about it, MisterSwig. I, for one, don't think Invictus' accusations have any merit. Fuck, everyone is guilty of misreading someone else's posts at some point or another (such tiny incidents hardly amount to wanton irrationality). Welcome to the internet, Invictus. Grow a thick skin or gtfo.

You bring a fascinating perspective to this discussion, and I am thankful for it. That said, I'd like to highlight this (quoted portion), because I believe it says something with which I disagree strongly. I have found associated with discussions of transgenderism and gender -- and things regarding man's "nature" more generally -- that several people finally wind up coming to the conclusion that people (or women more specifically) have some sort of moral duty to bear children. I think this is both wrong in itself, and it points to some earlier error with respect to conceptualizing morality. An individual's only moral duty is to himself (or herself) and to his own happiness. He owes nothing to evolution, nor to his family line, nor to future generations. That a person has some physical architecture to have children -- or do anything else -- does not make it some moral imperative to have children, and it does not make it immoral to choose not to have children.