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A good satire. One of the characteristics of good satire is that it is barely distinguishable from the very thing it satirizes. Well done. ruveyn1

Ragnar was a pirate so you might have a point. However Francisco destroyed only his -own- property which he had a right to do. ruveyn1

Having children is a way of promoting your values (not guaranteed to work, by the way). It is not necessarily living one through one's children. I think Ragnar was in -Atlas Shrugged- because Ayn Rand had a thing about Vikings. ruveyn1

Or maybe you wold have had no choice but to disagree with him. Hmmm. ruveyn1

Including me. A poll tax is an invitation for the government to extort you in return for having the right to vote. The few taxes the better off we are. ruveyn1

There are two kinds of philosophy. One kind is subject or susceptible to empirical verification and the other kind is not. ruveyn1

The government will still collect taxes to run the loot funded government ordained schools if for no other reason than to provide jobs for teachers. If the Good Guys run from the public school and the attendance goes to zero, the teachers will stand in front of rows and rows of empty seats. And the Good Guys will still be taxed. ruveyn1

Some times I wonder about the difference between ignorance and apathy. But most of the time, I don't and I don't care. ruvey1

I am so filled with fear that I check the pressure on my tires at least once a week. Precaution is the daughter of fear. Also people who take precautions tend to live longer. Live long and prosper. And the best of luck to you. ruveyn1 (who is part Vulcan) \\//

In better and older times being a freeholder has a condition for having the vote. A property owner has a horse in the race and a dawg in the hunt. He is less likely to want to loot the treasury of the commonwealth. ruveyn1

Replication is one of the things living beings do. ruveyn1

Look at the opening scene. Edie Willers notes that one out of for shops and stores are closed and out of business. He has bad news for Jim Taggart. Taggart Transcontinental is going to wrack and ruin. Things are falling apart. Partly because of Galt's efforts and partly because a mixed economy will fall apart eventually in any case. Galt is just speeding up the inevitable. ruveyn1

We need an armed force to protect our nation from hostile Bad Guys. Do you think would would have a sufficient army if it were privately owned and funded. And what would keep such an army on the straight and narrow, protecting the nation instead of trying run it. ruveyn1

It occurs to me that the Strikers did more than leave the country to fall into ruin. They formed a community so they could continue to function, but this time in the company of people they could admire, trust and rely on to produce value to trade for value produced. They left a big bad world and continued their existence in a smaller better world. ruveyn1

There is an easy cure. Do not attend the display of such junk. Boycott it. That would cut off the money supply. Problem solved. ruveyn1

Such a move would assure that only criminals, the police and the army had fire arms. It would no doubt cause many otherwise law abiding citizens into break-laws, those citizens who would not surrender their weapons, but hide them until needed. Aside from doubtful Constitutionality, denying civilians firearms would be totally non-productive and most likely harmful. ruveyn1

You must have had over a year's supply of food on hand. How about electric power and fuel for you car, assuming you have a car that needs fuel. ruveyn1

Render unto Obama those things which are Obama's and unto God those things which are God's. Since Obama thinks his is God, He wins, either way. ruveyn1

Swarts was in breach (allegedly) of 4 federal statutes. Now, if he were a virtuous practicer of Civil Disobedience to protest these laws then he would have stood to accept the penalty of these laws. That is the rule for honorable civil disobedience. If the laws were grossly unjust, his being penalized would have created enough public indignation to get the laws repealed. Afterward, the courts could have reduced his sentence to time served (if jail were involved) or canceling any fines levied against him. However he chose suicide. By the way, the Justice Department has vacated all charges against Aaron. ruveyn1

The real problem was elevating Ayn Rand to the Platform of Utter Perfection. Rand was a talented writer, no doubt about that (look how many copies of her novels sell on Amazon). However she was as all the rest of us are, quite human with the same inventory of faults and deficits that come with being human. ruveyn1

You did not answer the question I put to you. ruveyn1

There are some historical examples where multiple armed forces (or even gangs) bode ill for the society at large. For example in Germany of the ruination of the Versailles Treaty started to wreck German multiple armed groups, the Freikorps organized. These consisted of veteran soldiers (mostly) of the Great War and they were sore. They felt they had been betrayed by the politicians and were not favorably disposed toward the Weimar Republic. Many of these groups were out for bloody revenge. The sequel shows the result. The rise of the S.A. and the rest is history. ruveyn1