[115] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: Objectivist morals
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Constantine K. Christakos)
Fri Apr 20 13:43:52 2001
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 13:43:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Constantine K. Christakos" <dean@MIT.EDU>
To: Michael E Rolish <merolish@mit.edu>
cc: "Josiah D. Seale" <jdseale@mit.edu>, <mit-talk@mit.edu>
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On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Michael E Rolish wrote:
> No. If you people actually read Rand, you'd see her
> explanation of this false dichotomy. If man is to live,
> then he has to live by a set of principles, just like a
> scientist has to work by laws and principles. Her point
> is that people have to base their morality on the facts
> of reality, not divine order or whatever you feel like.
> Indeed, what goes around comes around...this is the law
> of causality.
Precisely. And for Rand, to create an Objectivist society, we must ensure
that all people live in total and complete _submission_ to the market, at
all times, from birth until death. Interestingly, this relates well to the
thread about the Live-In Wage protests. The Libertarian sympathizers base
their arguments against the protesters along the lines of, if there was a
market for Harvard's paying their phys-plant more money, then they would
be paid more, and thus noone should complain about this.
Some of the students, for example, would prefer living in a society which
did not include such a poorly-paid underclass, whereas the lib-symps claim
precisely that the students _must_ submit themselves to living in that
sort of society, because that is what the pseudo-market has dictated
(insofar as university staffing -- or any sort of organizational
staffing -- operates as a free market).
-Dean
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