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  1. <http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5igFKO9Qa4e5qeGs6UWf2oRYvtYpQ> How can a former Presidential candidate not speak up when someone is arrested for asking questions?
  2. Was wondering if anyone has encountered anymore of Harry G. Frankfurt's writing and what they thought. These two books describe a metaphysics very similar to Rand's.
  3. Exactly what I was going to reply to this story. The main purpose at school is academics. Schools should be putting high academic achievement on a pedestal as the highest accolade you can receive. How about at graduation, there are no more valedictorians.
  4. I like much of what Richard Dawkins writes about, but I do wish he would discover Ayn Rand's fundamental idea that man is born without instincts and bases decisions on a philosophy. All the questions asked in this video are answered very well by objectivist philosophy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9HtY1chchM&NR
  5. I'm sure this is motivated by a "take the kid's toys away until he apologizes" mentality. However, I think it's a good idea and is related to the Galt's Gulch idea. Take the supply away from the looters and they will come to their knees. http://articles.news.aol.com/business/_a/u...129063209990002
  6. I recommend reading Daniel Dennet's Freedom Evolves for a detailed description of how free will can evolve out of a deterministic system. http://www.amazon.com/Freedom-Evolves-Dani...tag2=exoscience And why you're at it, he's got many other great books as well. Daniel Dennet and Richard Dawkins put a lot of weight on genes controlling our actions, which I don't believe, but they have very good points about other subjects. There's a review of the book a little way down on this page: http://www.geocities.com/sande106/DanielDennett2.htm
  7. I don't think anyone can know for sure. I could hypothesize that since Dagy was a girl she had more pressure to prove herself early on. This could have led her to have more experiences where she experienced the benefits of productive work and self esteem. Eddie, being her friend, could have picked up the ideas and seen them in action through her. While Jim, being the son and assumed heir of Taggart Transcontinental would grow up with ideas of entitlement and the superficial benefits of social pull. As far as real life examples go, your environment is much more than your parents and the city you live in. I assume your brother had diffrent friends than you who. And his friends also had other friends and different parents with different beliefs. It will also be affected by the opportunities you have in school, which teachers you had, which girlfriend's you were with, etc. I know in my own case, nothing from my social or family environment cause me to be drawn to objectivism. Mostly I look at past efforts and results for my confirmation.
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