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Do you think he ought have the moral obligation and duty to do so?

He did appeal to those with whom he could reason with. He actively sought them out. He made them aware of the code that they were practicing and accepted. When they changed their minds and chose a different code to practice and accept, they quit their business of dropping the fruits of their labor into the open mouths who expected the mana to continue to fall in from the heavens.

That could be considered a hunch for going short on a stock. The Gannett Company, estimated worth of about 4.4 billion, might give quite a run for the money on that stance.

But I still don't see the causal entity(ies) identified here. Demand pull inflation, cost push inflation are proposition which themselves depend on underlying premises.

It is from The Lessons of Vietnam, and it indeed uses the word antagonist rather than protagonist, as well as anyone's rather than anyone\'s. "Nobody respects an altruist, neither in private life nor in international affairs. An altruist is a person who keeps sacrificing himself and his values, which means: sacrificing his friends to his enemies, his allies to his antagonists, his interests to any cry for help, his strength to anyone's weakness, his convictions to anyone's wishes, the truth to any lie, the good to any evil."

Separating myself from the church and the state, in as far is as posslble.

The Democrats want to take your money and give it to insolvent farmers. The Republicans want to take your money and give it to insolvent bankers. The only difference is to whom they want to give your money to. The question of to whom the money belongs is never addressed. Render to Caesar that which is Caesar's, render to God that which is God's - render the money to whom the money belongs. A separation of church and state is maintained by the concretization and recognition of the distinction between the two. To blur this distinction only requires the acceptance of things on faith, bromides and/or circumlocutious rationalizations.

I should have specifed to whom the question was directed. The loaded guns I've kept around my house have not discharged within my home either.

John Galt found a creative way to get birds of a feather to flock together. He withdrew the sanction of the victims by identifying to the victims the nature of their sanction. Those who died, died because they had not chosen to live and go about discovering the means by which to do so.

Kate87, you say: "Inflation is a general rise in the level of prices." What causes the general rise in the level of prices? Inflation? You state that the cause of inflation is not QE. What causes inflation?

John Galt also stated that his morality was contained in a single axiom; existence exists -- and in a single choice; to live. In short, he segregated those who chose to live from those who did not. It is only as retaliation that force may be used and only against the [men] who starts its use. No, I do not share [their] evil or sink to [their] concept of morality: I merely grant [them their] choice, destruction, the only destruction [they] had the right to choose: [their] own. After viewing sNerd's response, I have to add: he did not exercise force in his solution, he persuaded the men of the mind to join him voluntarily in his strike - letting rest of the world's code of morality run its course.

It's amazing what ten additional years of practice can accomplish.

"But a different breed of teachers had once existed, [Rearden] thought, and had reared the men who created this country; he thought that mothers should set out on their knees to look for men like Hugh Akston, to find them and beg them to return." Reardon heard Akston mentioned at his wife's anniversary party via Fransisco. Dagney encountered Akston at the diner. He must have been renowned enough (the attractive young woman connected the relative ages of Akston and Fransisco) for Rearen to pick as an example.

The balif cries, "All rise," The Honorable Reader enters. The balif announces, "The supreme mental court of this human consciousness is now in session. The Honorable Judge Reader presiding." "You may be seated." The balif cites, "Docket number 1074, the case of Atlas Shrugged: morality of altruism vs. morality of egoism." "Is the prosecution ready?" "I am, your Honor", Miss Rand replies. "Is the defense ready?" "I am, you Honor", Miss Rand replies. "You may proceed." That could make for a rather novel approach.

Funny, I thought she advocated teachers flipping burgers or providing manual labor for a railroad company between classes.

Wooden nickles and trillion dollar coins. Wood doesn't care what is inked on it, Metal doesn't care how it is embossed.

If you ponder it for another eight months, you will still find it hard to get a job due to lack of experience. Many fast food restaurants allow an opportunity to get some experience. While it is not in the line of a precious metal broker, it can provide a future employer with the knowledge that you were able to learn skills needed to perform some form of work. Combine that with research in the area of dealing with precious metals in the capacity of performing the functions of a broker. If you are looking for experience with phone experience, consider telemarking firms. The compensation is usually tied to performance permitting prospective employees an opportunity to prove themselves over time. While you may not know 'exactly what's up' with the debt collection agency, you've discovered enough to raise questions on your own. If you still choose to give it a try, you do so in the light of the knowledge you have thus far discovered.

I saw one article on this that suggested John Maynard Keynes as the portrait for the obverse side. An apropos motto might be: In debt we trust.

These are versions in the sense of specialization. Consider the science of medicine with the specializations therein; cardiologists, osteologists, endocrinologists, geriatrics, etc.

FBI: MORE PEOPLE KILLED WITH HAMMERS, CLUBS EACH YEAR THAN RIFLES Think about it: In 2005, the number of murders committed with a rifle was 445, while the number of murders committed with hammers and clubs was 605. In 2006, the number of murders committed with a rifle was 438, while the number of murders committed with hammers and clubs was 618. And so the list goes, with the actual numbers changing somewhat from year to year, yet the fact that more people are killed with blunt objects each year remains constant. For example, in 2011, there was 323 murders committed with a rifle but 496 murders committed with hammers and clubs. I wonder how many unreported incidences where club or hammer wielding assailants were thwarted by gun bearing 'victims'.

Some of us consider Objectivism a philosophy, not a doctrine.

Your simplification of 'like attracts like' aligns the white with white, grey with grey, black with black. Contrast this against Peikoff's one line summary "The “sanction of the victim” is the willingness of the good to suffer at the hands of the evil, to accept the role of sacrificial victim for the “sin” of creating values."

Getting the (dis)values one seeks from another and the sanction of (disvalues) the victim (does not actively seek) resonate at quite different frequencies.

Which moral values would those be?

Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology enroute to the mind of a Political Science student interested in clarifying some details brought up in OPAR.