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  1. I read Capital: The Unknown Ideal it was very good! I just wanted something in depth on the Microsoft case mostly because everyone I talk to is sure Microsoft and other big monopolies did all thease illegal things to the other companies, like stealing ideas and using illegal tactics to put them out of business. I dont think this is true so I wanted to be sure. Thanks for your recommendations. I've gotten all of them and they look good.
  2. I'm looking for a good book on the monopoly fallacy especially one covering Microsoft. If anyone knows of one or two I would love to know. Thanks.
  3. In Russia there was once something very close to a “fixed market”, they called it communism, and if memory serves it didn’t work out so well for them.
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    Loyalty

    That’s true but I think acting on your values doesn’t show loyalty it shows rationality. Demonstrating loyalty to a person or cause is usually independent of or ranks higher than value judgments. That’s why a loyal friend will help do something that is normally against their values. I believe what often goes for loyalty and disloyalty is rationality, a person who will act on values (good or bad) instead of just acting loyal. Just think of its most popular contexts; my voters are loyal, or they are loyal supporters. Statements like that imply an unlikelihood of the people being swayed regardless of what happens just because their loyal.
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    Loyalty

    Is Loyalty a Virtue? I don’t necessarily think it’s a vice, I just believe it falls in the neutral ground of neither good nor bad. Loyalty to me always seemed to imply an obligation or a blind willingness to a subject. The virtuous qualities associated with loyalty seem not to be inherent in loyalty but in spite of it. In any example I think of it appears that the appealing aspects of "loyalty" are in fact, other virtues of rationality. “It is virtuous to be loyal to a friend in need.” This example would have you believe that a friend in need has currently nothing to offer you in return for your friendship. ( Friendship could be gifts, labor, or companionship in this case.) So in order for this person to get help from you he requires your loyalty because there is no incentive. I think one would help a friend in need to preserve something of value to ones self …their friendship. So in fact they do have something to offer. If they have something to offer there is no need for an obligation like loyalty. However if they no longer possess the qualities you found of value, and they truly have nothing to offer, than your loyalty to them is equated to charity an action deemed as neutral by Objectivism. I would like to know what anyone else thinks. Is loyalty in the Ayn Rand Lexicon?
  6. It's hard to imagine how far gone things would have to be before the USSR or China would attack us. Man, I'm gonna have to rent "Red Dawn" again.
  7. It would be funny to see Christopher Walken as Gail Wynand. I can't think of anyone who could play Roark and do the book justice though.
  8. I liked the book I thought it was good. Winston was kind of pathetic though for the lead character. I thought Julia was a saving grace to off set the weaselly nature of Winston. Also I thought I read that Orwell was a communist/socialist earlier in his life but changed his mind after Russia tanked its rep. I figured that’s why the book appeared anti-stallen rather than anti-communism. (His lack of vision leading him to see them both as one in the same) Animal farm on the other hand struck me as anti-capitalism. (Which may have been his point?)
  9. What possible rationale could anyone have for bashing computer games? Anything truly negative being said would have to be about the character of the player not the games. Like when people say: They are a waste of time. Well that would be only if the person has something better to do, in which case that person is a time waster not the game. If one feels that they are a waste of his or her time they are not obligated to spend their time playing them. This again, is not the game in a position of responsibility. I personally feel fishing is a waste of my time but I’m not about to bash fishing in general. Besides I love computer games.
  10. Global warming is a topic ramped with “bad science” and hidden agendas. To even think about making laws based on what is said to be known about GW is sick. Besides it’s still cold in Michigan. Everytime I brush the snow off my car I hope global warming kicks in soon. I should just move.
  11. “if you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the harder the world bore down upon his shoulders---- what would you tell him to do?” My world; this country, has bore down on me long enough. I will no longer be a party to my own demise. I will not select the instrument of my execution simply to buy time. It makes little difference to me whether I’m killed abroad in a war I don’t condone, or am slowly tax to death here at home. By making a choice, by “picking your poison” you do little more than participate in game the will kill you. Now or later is the choice you long to make? Not me. For those who do choose the “’lesser of two evils” (as you’ve put it) as if it’s your duty, your Atlas will never shrug. He will simply die while picking the slowest way to do it. The only participation I will give this government will be forced, i.e. the IRS. I’d rather not help rationalize and conceal their idiocy by taking part. But that’s just me.
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