Wow, relax? Jesus. I made a remark, explained my point, and then you immediately insulted my posts and my blog.
Of course you aren’t obligated to blog…but it has a similar rational to voting. You are trying to affect change in the world you live in, even if your particular contribution is small.
There was no insult there. You did not explain yourself properly (and still haven’t), and that is what I was taking issue with. You seem to have missed the point.
Of course you aren’t obligated to blog…but it has a similar rational to voting.
I am aware you are not suggesting that it is an obligation. What everyone in here is trying to tell you is that these comparisons, like this one about voting, are not correct. You misunderstand the concept of self-interest as it is used by Objectivism. Ayn Rand has directly discussed things of this nature in her writings.
If you believe in keeping it entirely to yourself, do you also never vote? Or advocate ideas to others? The two are inconsistent.
Or, perhaps they are spending their time in ways that promote their self-interest in more valuable ways. You do understand that values and self-interest are INDIVIDUAL things, right? You do understand that there may be other ways that people choose to engage their fellow man besides blogging, right? Are you mistakenly thinking that because it is in YOUR self-interest to blog that it must be in every other Objectivists self-interest to blog too? If you haven’t gathered it by now, what people are ticked about is your presumption about what is in their best interest, as if you know better than they do how their values must be carried out. Presumption is rarely, if ever, appreciated on this site.