nvmd

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   by nvmd 3y ago

   Nah. The book is a big metaphor used to explain the philosophy. Making the characters like that means they're harder to relate (I think to some degree, Rand thought she was Dagny) but easier to understand. Them being physically superio
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   by nvmd 5y ago

   150 years later and Bastiat still got it.
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   by nvmd 5y ago

   Would you look at that. Turns out there's a word to describe the utopia high level language programmers use to justify the bloated software they use and produce.
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   by nvmd 6y ago

   I know what utilitarianism is, as someone who leans more to the side of deontological ethics. The problem with fairness not being an end means you can't have justice. Your moral ethics culminates on the never ending struggle we hav
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   by nvmd 6y ago

   > My thinking is more so from a position of minimizing suffering Don't you think that's unfair by nature? How do you justify it?