...same here. .
Posted on 04/17/2011 9:43:01 AM PDT by RonDog
Here’s a marketing question I thought I’d never ask: Well, exactly that appears to be happening with the movie adaptation of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged.
Would you think that a critically panned, low-budget movie, with a virtually unknown director and cast, could catapult a more than 50 year-old book near the top of the Amazon bestseller list?
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.forbes.com ...
ROFLMAO!
Here's one item:
"If Roe v. Wade is reconsidered, the Supreme Court should affirm abortion as a right that cannot be invaded or compromised."
Not possible. There is no true freedom without God.
This is true. She might not have had the whole picture as we know it, but she had enough to know the evils of Communism.
I like to recall Reagan's saying that, "The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally -- not a 20 percent traitor."
IIRC, your previous posts were along the line of libertarianism. Is that not correct?
Also, do you think health care and employment are rights? According to your quote Rand doesn’t.
Ayn Rand:
“Never mind the vicious nonsense of claiming that an embryo has a ‘right to life.’ A piece of protoplasm has no rights -— and no life in the human sense of the term.”
“An Embryo is not alive.”
Well, even if 80% of your cup is the finest wine, 20% cyanide is still gonna kill ya.
Ayn Rand:
“An embryo has no rights. Rights do not pertain to a potential, only to an actual being. A child cannot acquire any rights until it is born. The living take precedence over the not-yet-living (or the unborn).”
“Abortion is a moral right—which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved; morally, nothing other than her wish in the matter is to be considered. Who can conceivably have the right to dictate to her what disposition she is to make of the functions of her own body?”
(SOURCE: “Of Living Death,” The Voice of Reason, Ayn Rand pp. 58–59)
Ayn Rand:
“I cannot quite imagine the state of mind of a person who would wish to condemn a fellow human being to such a horror. I cannot project the degree of hatred required to make those women run around in crusades against abortion. Hatred is what they certainly project, not love for the embryos, which is a piece of nonsense no one could experience, but hatred, a virulent hatred for an unnamed object. Judging by the degree of those women’s intensity, I would say that it is an issue of self-esteem and that their fear is metaphysical. Their hatred is directed against human beings as such, against the mind, against reason, against ambition, against success, against love, against any value that brings happiness to human life. In compliance with the dishonesty that dominates today’s intellectual field, they call themselves “pro-life.”
“By what right does anyone claim the power to dispose of the lives of others and to dictate their personal choices?”
(SOURCE: “The Age of Mediocrity,” The Objectivist Forum, Ayn Rand, June 1981, 3.)
-- Ayn Rand.
...same here. .
It seems Rand believes Our Constitution was drafted and designed, not as a charter for government power, but as a protection against government power, i.e., against invasion of individual rights by the government. For this reason, the Constitution enumerates the limited powers of the government but not (as made clear in the Ninth Amendment) every individual right.
She apparently understands rights, but mistakenly assigns an absolute right to the woman, not the fetus.
I agree, that is not her's to assign.
According to the philosophy of Ayn Rand, the firefighters who went up the stairs of the World Trade Center on 9-11-2001 were damned fools. The men who rushed the cockpit on Flight 93 to stop the plane from being crashed into the Capitol or the White House were idiots. The soldier who gives his life for his buddies or for his country is to be scorned.
And of course, the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on a Roman cross to pay the price for the sins of humanity is the scandal of all scandals.
Excellent!
That’s probably the first time I’ve ever agreed with Phil Donahue.
He stated atheists are arrogant and condescending.
I would add they are also intellectually dishonest.
"My morality is based on man's life as the standard of value...that his highest moral purpose is the achievement of his own habits...that each man must live as an end in himself."
An anti-Christian doctrine if there ever was one.
Sadly, that’s true of the entire Supreme Court, without exception.
There are some ideas conservatives can take from this movie, like individual freedom and the destruction of the Marxist government and perhaps others.
Thanks, EV, see you around.
That's exactly where the deception lies. There is no possibility of true individual freedom under the objectivist ideology. It is every bit as destructive and opposed to true liberty as Marxism ever was.
And I believe that God works through each of us.
Thank you. Well said.
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