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Sylar

['Member']Joined: January 25, 2017 at 02:04Last active: January 20, 2020 at 17:421 discussions12 comments

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Forgive me; I don't really understand what you're saying. I really do not follow. Are you essentially saying virtue means self improvement? To be hone...
January 30, 2017 at 13:38
If I don't know someone I just assume they are generally rational and are thinking honestly for themselves. Why do you entertain a strange story about...
January 29, 2017 at 11:49
No. I'm saying that I'm sure he felt happy. I do not think he would have ever felt any shred of guilt.
January 27, 2017 at 04:53
There's also the absurdity that I didn't grasp that if Objectivist ethics are necessary to be happy, then no one in history, except for Ayn Rand and t...
January 26, 2017 at 12:31
Good question. I don't think believing a philosophy or a claim in its entirety is prima facie always wrong, but I do agree that if I was convinced by ...
January 26, 2017 at 12:09
Well I initially believed it to be entirely correct, and so if I found difficulties in my own life, it was a moral failing, my fault, nothing to do wi...
January 26, 2017 at 03:47
I would say I do still appreciate and agree with many aspects of it. The need for a personal morality to me makes sense. The Greek's virtue ethics is ...
January 26, 2017 at 03:37
Thanks ^_^
January 25, 2017 at 07:40
I agree with this. Facts have no truth condition. They just are. Propositions have truth conditions.
January 25, 2017 at 04:06
The humanity restoration goes deep. I would not even pursue sex due to feelings of gulit. I kind of crushed all of my desires. Self moralizing and suc...
January 25, 2017 at 03:44
Yeah. Even as someone who would have identified as 90% Objectivist, I could not get along with them. It can feel like a secular religion for sure. Int...
January 25, 2017 at 02:40
isn't that really your estimation? I'm sure many people disagree with this assessment, so I guess that's why they continue to study it. In any case, i...
January 25, 2017 at 02:30