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Originally Posted by aceventura3
We agree.
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I meant you.
A persons ignorance should not be a license to act unethically.
The laws of capitalism, blind and invisible to the majority, act upon the individual without his thinking about it. He sees only the vastness of a seemingly infinite horizon before him. That is how it is painted by capitalist propagandists, who purport to draw a lesson from the example of Rockefeller—whether or not it is true—about the possibilities of success. The amount of poverty and suffering required for the emergence of a Rockefeller, and the amount of depravity that the accumulation of a fortune of such magnitude entails, are left out of the picture, and it is not always possible to make the people in general see this.
Perhaps that will explain better what I meant.
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Originally Posted by roachboy
this is kinda interesting on the influence that that staggeringly idiotic pseudo-philosophy "objectivism" in conservativeland:
sounds a bit like the underlying logic of a lot of ace's bad examples/analogies/simplification-falsification exercises.
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If Objectivism seems familiar, it is because most people know it under another name: adolescence. Many of us experienced a few unfortunate years of invincible self-involvement, testing moral boundaries and prone to stormy egotism and hero worship. Usually, one grows out of it. Libertarians and Objectivists are moved by the mania of a single idea — a freedom indistinguishable from selfishness.