Congrats to all.
It is an honor to be among such company.

spoke out often against voting in general and down-voting in particular. We decry unbridled democracy in civics and politics, yet allow it, encourage it, and engage it here. This is the consequence: vox populi vox dei = those who believe in God win more elections.

3 Posted by  $  Robbie53024 10 months, 1 week ago 
When you insist on putting the modifier "rational" in front of "self interest" you are no different than the religious that those here often decry as being mystics.

Why do you get to limit your descriptions to those who behave "rationally?" If self interest is the virtue, then why isn't it so if taken to the extreme? And in this context, Madoff merely took his own self interest to an extreme point. Yes, he lied and cheated, that's what it took for him to realize his self interest.

This is where I think that Objectivism fails. You cannot say that a little self interest is good, but a lot is bad. It is either good or bad.

Nobody here wants to answer the BAOTB postulate. If my self interest is good, then what stops me from just trampling over everyone else's liberty to get whatever I want? My self interest is paramount.

I hear this retort - "because the only way to ensure one's own liberty is to recognize the liberty of others" - Why? What universal axiom makes that so? I have provided countless examples of individuals throughout history that have not behaved according to that maxim. Some of them died of other than old age because of it, but so what? Is the Objectivist ultimate objective merely to die of old age? So those people ultimately were killed by a Badder ass, so what? They lived and did what they wanted in their own self interest. We still remember, hell, study many of those people - Alexander the Great, Cleopatra, Hitler and Stalin. I posit that those people made a bigger impact on the world - for good or evil - than any 10 Objectivists ever will.

As I'm often told - check your premises.

Not a rant against you, kh, merely a rant.

I feel like I got my money's worth! ;)

I've been a bit short on that lately....

heh heh heh... thanks, conscious.

Yours are quality points, LS. :)

Wait aaa..... how does Robbie have more points than I do??

All but five. And three are people I'm surprised I hadn't looked at before... hmmmm
Why do you look at your own profile.

What a great list of great producers.

ok. this is kinda fun. how many of the profiles in this list have you clicked on before? guess how many in this list I've clicked on? (hint: I've clicked on my own profile multiple times :))

You ought to be on this list as well, Scott. Happy New Year!