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Old 03-25-2004, 09:46 AM   #29
Reichart
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1. Q: I don't want burning to be added because it's morally wrong or offfensive, just that it would be a bit tasteless and juvenile. How's that?
A: GREAT! We totally agree.

There was a famouse court case in America back in the 60s. The case was basically against a movie theater which showed some nudity in a movie (your country would laugh at this case, it was a French movie called The Lovers). The judge called it “pornography” By today’s standards it would be called “boring.”

The “judge” lost the case (since it was really him who had to make the final call), and commented on pornography (which he could not define as a crime), “I know it when I see it.”

Do you want to live in a world where people tell you what is what because “they know it when they see it?” We do!

Tiny, you have the makings of a great Objectivist, but it requires a little training and practice. Not that you would necessarily want to be an objectivist, I’m not really an objectivist, but it is important and useful to understand objectivism completely when engaging arguments about “opinion.”

If you were going to start running for exercise, would you “just” run, or would you do many exercises, and improve your diet in order to be a healthy well rounded runner? Debating, opinion, and life views are like this.

Yes, learning about Objectivism is difficult and time consuming, but once grasped, it will completely change your approach to almost everything…even if you do not agree with all the tenets.

May I truly suggest to you (and everyone) read Atlas Shrugged. It stands on its own as a great book (very long). Worth reading every page, or get it on Tape and enjoy it for several weeks when driving to work. But it is the fastest way to grasp objectivism.

But, in a nutshell, objectivism is a painful process (that gets easier over time) of undermining your own preconceived-culturally–inspired-religiously-controlled belief systems, and throwing them away in favour of what is true.

A simple example is to go back in time, and consider how many of your current views would land you in prison, even in the same culture, or religious environment.

I often feel that I have been “dropped off” in this century, and I fear speaking of the world being round.
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