From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 22 5: 1: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F389F37B59C for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 05:00:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA02324; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 05:58:59 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000622055447.04a564a0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 05:58:48 -0600 To: Brad Knowles , Neil Blakey-Milner From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Yet more attacks on BSD from Leibovitz Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <20000622100151.A3600@mithrandr.moria.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20000621095116.04662d60@localhost> <20000622100151.A3600@mithrandr.moria.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 03:24 AM 6/22/2000, Brad Knowles wrote: > Obviously I'm demonstrating my ignorance, because I know just a > little bit about Marx and the work that he did, building on top of > previous work by Jean Jacques Rousseau (and how this relates to Hobbes & > Locke, and how they influenced people like Hamilton and Jefferson), but > although I've heard of Ayn Rand, I know nothing more than that -- heck I > don't even know if Ayn Rand is male or female (although I would tend to > assume the latter). > > And that's about it for my name-dropping. ;-) The comparison to Ayn Rand is not flattering. Ayn Rand's "objectivism" justifies -- no, glorifies -- complete selfishness without regard for trivial matters such as ethics, law and order, personal integrity, etc. Don't believe that the end justifies the means? According to Rand, nice guys finish last, so you're obviously a loser. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message