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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month 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...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Almost the same year as Hobbes (1679)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Final Report Card

History of Philosophy C+

Math D-

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

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