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[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 61 points 6 days ago (4 children)

The best argument against Rand is just listening to her for 5min.

Very rarely do you see such a mixture of arrogance, self-righteousness and utter lack of logic in a single person.

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 5 points 4 days ago

I learned some years ago that Rand wrote erotica before she wrote ""philosophy""

Then I read some of her porn. And everything clicked.

She let her self-indulgent porn fantasies leak into her philosophy, that's all.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 27 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I once asked a Randite about 'Objectivism.'

"If theft is theft, doesn't that mean we should hand all the land back to the Natives?"

The answer was NO, because the Native Amercans weren't using the land in the right way...

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

An argument that goes back to Hobbes (which doesn't make it right)

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Didn't Rand say that all the old philosophers were crackpots?

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Guess what: She's old now...

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Almost the same year as Hobbes (1679)

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Final Report Card

History of Philosophy C+

Math D-

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 days ago

I don't know if this factors in but my rhesus factor is positive

[–] teft@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Very rarely do you see such a mixture of arrogance, self-righteousness and utter lack of logic in a single person.

I know another orange example...

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

In other words - everything she accused the "others" of being.
What was it that she called them, again? I can't be bothered to look it up, let's see if I can remember...

Empathists? Philanthropists? Something like that.

EDIT: altruists!

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I remember Wil Wheaton saying this in The Guild, but was he also quoting Rand at the time?

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Quick, get a time machine. For, uh, educational purposes.