Paganzer

Not being able to fight determinism undermines the very idea of Objectivism as a whole(since it's based on man's volition). Now, Objectivists would naturally be proponents of cause and effect. But why does this principle not apply to human conciousness? Since all things right now are somewhere(including neurons in the human brain) and are all moving in one direction or another. So, aren't all things going to move in one specific course in the future, but we cannot yet know what that is since we can't locate everything moving about? So, if we knew the exact location of everything everywhere in the universe, it's temperature, properties, and what direction it was currently moving, could we not plot out the future? Does this not in fact negate both the ideas of volition and an undetermined future? If man has a truly independent mind, doesn't that negate cause and effect? Otherwise man's mind really is just a sum of it's surroundings, as far as I could see.

I'm curious, are any Objectivists against gay marriage? Strangely, I'm not sure that I've ever seen any Objectivists write in favor of it, but as one myself I know that I am.