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El Polo

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  • Birthday 09/24/1984

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  1. Does anyone have any specific information regarding this new "act" that was put into place? I've heard nothing but horrible things about it.
  2. I was having a discussion regarding Wal-Mart, and happened to mention that most objectivists are in favor of the company and its expansion. I myself am unsure on how Wal-Mart treats its employees, but I was told that the company delivers poor wages, treats them poorly, and is becoming too powerful. What is the defense for Wal-Mart, who is appearently so powerful that it can "treat their employees however they want?"
  3. I somehow had created the assumption that art was (on some level) free from reality. I see now that even the emotion that inspires the art is rational.
  4. I have only just begun to read The Romantic Manifesto, but I am still having trouble with the notion of defining art in a concrete manner. I have always thought of art (in all forms) as a very personal thing, so I can't see that it even should be defined like this. What would you all say to a statement such as this: Rational self expression demands no rationality.
  5. No matter what you do with the stolen money, you had to make the conscious decision to steal it in the first place. That makes the action immoral, without a doubt. But does it stop there? What if the stolen money is used for good? I actually experienced this a while back, when I used to work in a grocery store. One night at this job at a very late hour, I witnessed an obviously very poor, relatively young man that had an entire shopping cart packed with diapers and baby formula. No booze. No expensive luxuries at all. Merely basic products he needed that I am assuming would go to his family (immediate or otherwise). The man was walking out of the store with this cart, and because it was so late, there was no one else around at the time. I caught him red-handed, and we exchanged eye contact. I did not react, however, and simply walked away. The man knew of this, and left the store, stealing successfully. I made the conscious decision to allow someone to steal. In retrospect, I believe that stealing (no matter what, and no matter for what end) is ultimately immoral. But that night, I simply did not choose to confront this man for his crime. Would that be a crime onto me? Probably. But I suppose I must live with that.
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