anonrobt

If you recognize that a child is, properly, what is re-pubertant,that a teenager is, properly, a young adult - and that there was little if any disagreement of this before the 20th century... if you recognize that, culturally speaking, the 20th century was a deliberate extending of childhood beyond validity, as a means of extending control over those involved - at least in pushing the notion of adulthood as some manner of 'necessary evil', and that childhood was a time to be savored as long as possible, that dependency was good, and self-responsibility was to be not bothered with for as long as possible - the infantilizing of the teen, with the conjoining disrespect of the being as a person capable of self determination, and with the inevitable rebellion of them as a sensed devaluation of what should otherwise had been a continuing growth of self responsibility - that those who deviated from this viewing of the teens were more and more constrained from being able to violate these proscriptions - then you can better try to answer that question, now having been given some perspectives from which to see how an answer could be given... morally and legally are by no means the same, and in this day of continually furthering of constraints on all, not just the young adults, thru these legalities, answering can be hard to do in the sense of any single answer in the real world - because that legality is very powerful, even as it is at cross serving the moral...

your biology knowledge simply is abysmal - chimps are NOT monkeys, any more than we are... we are APES, a distinction apart from monkeys...

Ratatouille is one the great movies, certainly the best of Pixar............. not just for the "Anyone can..." but as much the rest - "...but not everyone should."

Try Rachmaninov.......

In Badger Clark's The Westerner poem, the end of the stanzas is - "The sun wheels swift from morn to morn,/And the world began when I was born,/And the world is mine to win." Well, if the world began when one is born [to that person, obviously], then the world ends when that person dies...

Always fun to see this from time to time - hilarious indeed!

Good one indeed - love it... and got my vote too...

the only vat needed is the one to put krugman in, close the lid, and boil him...

or, to put it another way - does she intend to support a slaver state, or freedom [for force and subjugation are what slavers do, however they may euphenize it]...

Remember - this is an individual philosophy, not a group one...

Well, let's see... "Age of Anarchy" "Rise of Traders" "Confederation" because one does not wish to repeat the mistakes of the past...

The comments to Amit's OpEd were, however, quite disappointing... about as irrational and concrete-bound as any seen...

It certainly appears to be a published book, and in the previous year by someone other than the previously stated A bientot... haven't finished reading it, but is so far a very good translation... would indeed like getting a hard copy of it, but as yet, Amazon not carry it...

The biggest problem with sociology is that it is premised, fundamentally, on the tribalist view of the world, not the development of individualism in the process of civilization...

Poem of Ecstasy is an orchestrated making love composition - extraordinarily done [indeed, once made love via it playing in the background, and dang if it didn't all come out just as to the music ][yes, by the end of the music, she knew she was being played, but she could not help herself, and had to agree it was very well written]

Regarding BLINK, one should read THINK, Michael R. LeGault's apt rebuttal...

That, actually, is the best one to start with - then you go to The Virtue of Selfishness,then Capitalism the Unknown Ideal... the rest essentially are fillers, for those more interested in particular details [and OPAR is not Rand non-fiction, nor, for all the good they really are, are Tara Smith's books - these are Rand derived, but not Rand]...

My quibble on this issue's showing is this 'retro' of imitating classical as a means of expression... that strikes me as lacking in imagination, certainly universalness... far better to have nudes, where it is timeless, or at least within contemporary clothing styles... [am speaking specifically in this case of Larsen's works]

Dehydration by John Paul Sherman There was a man who pricked his heart On the thorn of an unfilled need, Who clamped a bandage, crushed the smart, Refused to let it bleed. Yet, while fore-stanching bitter blood, A sequel swell of liquid gall— Crude tears--impinged; he damned the flood, Refused to let them fall. When no moist sigh could crack dry lips, Nor a memory-dampened moan Elude such arid censorships, He felt secure as stone, Till, on foot in an autumn week, He heard, along the cobbled way, A dead leaf scoff. He turned to speak— ...But the wind blew him away.

I have the book, but haven't read it in years, so will have to re-read it to give the assessment... maybe by end of this week...

If you're speaking of uplifting music, it is hard to beat Sousa's Stars and Stripes Forever or the William Tell Overture, or Saint Saens' Fifth Concerto...

I wrote this last year regarding observations of the difficulty many artists have in monetarily pursuing a living - and I think it pertains here, as even tho it speaks of artists, it applies across the board to any productive endeavor - Remuneration... While many of these examples given of various artists and their works show those who have made a financial success of trading their works, not all have - indeed, a number of highly creative artists never acquire the means of achieving their material well-being thru just their creativity... does this mean anything in the way of failure? no, because while the basic reason person need be productive is to meet the needs for material values, and normally this is thru trade as means of payment for the work - this is not always the case... money is not the only type of material value, and not all work that creates material value is well compensated in the market... thus a person may need be making the money at a less productive, relatively undemanding job, in order to enable the more rewarding and challenging and productive work - in this case being that of the artist... this is often, perhaps especially so, when the artist as creator has blazed a new direction in creating, showing work which requires more conscious attention to being appreciated, or appeals to a more selective set of viewers... this does not detract from it being productive work, only that the burden of being able to achieve the creating may be harder than otherwise, a situation which, to the creator having the success of the creating, is, relatively speaking, small and unimportant... it is the doing, the creating, the visualizing which is the productive and thus the important - and in that regard, the success of being...

In other words - there are values, and there are viable values... and only the latter enhances the well-being, the flourishing, of the person...

Perhaps that is because 'positive rights' stem from 'divine rights', and postulate a master/servant relationship - and elitists, being the sheltered they are, consider themselves as heirs to the 'divine rights' notion...

The only difference I have found, in any practice or common use, is that morals refers to a religious based view of what is right or wrong, and ethics refers to a secular view... almost all, whether the one or the other, refer to a cultural viewing of right/wrong, even if in part there may be objective basis involved...