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A Manifesto for Psychopaths

by cycojesus on 3/6/12, 11:02 AM with 13 comments

• by MaggieL on 3/6/12, 12:09 PM

  "1. In the spirit of Rand, I suggest you don’t pay for it, but download it here.."

  That's pretty much all you need to know about how much this fellow understands about "the spirit of Rand".

  "Like all philosophies, Objectivism is absorbed second-hand by people who have never read it."

  And it's rejected by lefties in precisely the same way. Usually under the helpful guidance of an undergrad prof. :-)

• by free-man on 3/6/12, 2:57 PM

  Also, there is nothing 'psychopathic' about wanting to keep the fruit of your labor. Imagine there's no government (it's easy if you try). You are responsible for yourself, starve or prosper. Your choice whether to feed the moochers and looters, or to fight them. Pirates are glorified in Atlas Shrugged...

• by free-man on 3/6/12, 2:43 PM

  Rand opposed the domination of the individual by the State, and dramatically illustrated the snivelling scum who infest and control the Omnipotent State as a way to dominate those with whom they can't compete. If you enjoy having bureaucratic control over all your decisions, instead of the freedom to try your ideas, possibly failing or possibly hitting big then join the criticism of Rand. There's nothing wrong with being charitable and generous to others, unless it is enforced by the State. As a choice it is a virtue, as an edict enforced with deadly force it is slavery.

• by yaix on 3/6/12, 12:35 PM

  If she was not already disproven before, then she was in 2008, when even Greenspan was speachless confronting the magnitude of the disaster that the ultra-market-liberal ideology had caused.

• by etherael on 3/6/12, 11:58 AM

  Way to strawman a complex philosophy with a simplistic summary.