Re: An Open Letter To Open-Minded Progressives

On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:12:43 -0500, skysi <feur@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>"Gene Ward Smith" <gene@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
>> "skysi" <feur@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>>>  That kind of society would be free of cohersion, because everything
>>> will revolve around reason, not special interests.
>>
>> Great. All we need is a society of robots, and we can suggest they give
it a
>> try. There is, of course, no chance it would work with human beings.
>
>Your comment stems from lack of philosophical comprehension of such a
society.

Actually, no; his comment stems from extensive experience with human
beings
and how they behave.

It's sufficiently different from what you propose that it's probably safe
to
say that such a society would not be composed of human beings as such,
even
if it was descended from humans.

>You are really understimating human beings, my friend.

Nah; I believe you're seriously naive, and overestimating them. I see
about
three "and then a miracle occurs" boxes in the presumed flowchart showing
how to get from any existing society to yours which will Work Because It's
Based On Reason And Truth and Has Eliminated All Trace Of Any Special
Interests.

>By the way Objectivist philosophy is ultimately for and about human 
>beings/individuals, unlike everything else.

Spoken like someone who hasn't actually tried any other philosophy. Do you
think bees wrote the other stuff, or what?

Dave
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