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  1. When is the D-I-M Hypothesis book due?

    in Metaphysics and Epistemology

    Posted · Edited by softwareNerd
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    *** Mod's note: Adding the details from that link, for those who don't use Facebook... - sN ***

    The publisher, Penguin's New American Library, has decided to publish The DIM Hypothesis (have it in the stores) in September 2012, earlier than I thought, and a few months before the election. That's assuming I hand in the manuscript by mid-November, which is now an absolute commitment in my mind.

    - September 22, 2011 at 12:38pm

  3. Use of Deadly Force in Defense of Property

    in Ethics

    Posted

    Didn't include this in my original post.

    http://www.lrc.ky.gov/KRS/503-00/080.PDF

    DavidOdden says, "police would not say "Oh, look, a perp. I get to kill him!"."

    I think that some robotic yahoos exist in law enforcement that may do this.

    My non-Objectivist younger brother is in law enforcement and loves to point out laws that he thinks that I will disagree with. Our discussion of an issue similar to the the old lady and a vandal is what led to my post on arson. My state says a person may use deadly force if it is believed that it is necessary to prevent the commission of a felony involving use of force, and that a person who unlawfully and by force enters or attempts to enter a person's dwelling, residence, or occupied vehicle is presumed to be doing so with the intent to commit an unlawful act involving force or violence. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/KRS/503-00/055.PDF

    I believe that I see these issues as DavidOdden sees them, and believe that this is in line with Ayn Rand's comments on initiation of force in Chapter eight of OPAR.

    Off topic, but here is another item regarding use of force that my brother has brought up in regards to disciplining children.

    http://www.lrc.ky.gov/KRS/503-00/110.PDF

  4. Atlas Shrugged discussion panel on CSPAN

    in Fiction

    Posted

    Ugh. The line up of speakers includes David Kelly, Edward Hudgins and Mimi Gladstein? This is a disaster in the making.

    I skimmed through this online yesterday at the C-Span BookTV site. There was some mention of ARI, mostly by Crane and Hudgins in the last panel. Towards the end Hudgins mocks Brook for his attendance of a "libertarian" Atlas Economic Research Foundation meeting by making a quip about Kelley getting "kicked out" for this.

    Found it odd that at the end of each of the panels C-Span showed a link to ARI's site.

  6. Government Mandated Safety Inspections

    in Questions about Objectivism

    Posted · Edited by _j_

    Only you can put yourself on the train so it is always your choice, unless of course you live under a communist regime. But this situation requires you to make judgement call in regards to the train and its functioning. Just as if you were living near a nuclear power plant.

    How easy is it to enter into a foreign state if you live in a small one?

    I have no problem understanding why the government regulations are wrong.

  7. Government Mandated Safety Inspections

    in Questions about Objectivism

    Posted

    This plant being operated remotely, I take it? I can sleep contentedly knowing that everyone that works at the plant (i.e. the people who are responsible for it's day-to-day operations) will be the first ones to die if anything goes wrong. As free men, they have values to protect and thus reasons to protect them.

    Under any other sort of economic system, they are slaves, and their feelings about their own safety are illustrated fairly well by the destruction of the Taggart tunnel in Atlas Shrugged.

    I am concerned with being put on a train with "irrational" people where I do not have a choice to board or not. :)

    A little bit more about where I am coming from...Generally when I have a question about the application of Objectivist principles, or if someone asks me how I think some situation could be handled without the government, I find that the philosophy leaves a way of "policing" itself, rational solutions to common problems. As an example, I have been approached before about the issue of speed limits. Easy solutions while applying principles are available for those concerned with this aspect of safety.

    This issue however leaves me unsettled.

  9. Government Mandated Safety Inspections

    in Questions about Objectivism

    Posted

    I recently read this article about the indictment of nuclear plant workers charged with hiding reactor damage.

    http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/art...ate=printpicart

    This got me wondering how safety issues would be addresses ideally, in circumstances where neglect could lend to the potential for mass casualties. Are there bases, in Objectivist terms, for allowing government mandated safety inspections of private businesses in situations such as these?

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