From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 22 10:47: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shell.webmaster.com (ftp.webmaster.com [209.10.218.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C1F837BACB for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 10:46:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from davids@webmaster.com) Received: from whenever ([209.133.29.2]) by shell.webmaster.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id com; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 10:46:38 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Brett Glass" Cc: Subject: RE: Yet more attacks on BSD from Leibovitz Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 10:46:49 -0700 Message-ID: <001501bfdc71$d7d1a880$021d85d1@youwant.to> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000622055447.04a564a0@localhost> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4029.2901 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass wrote: > 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. So you are saying that a person who valued themself as their highest goal wouldn't also value integrity? You actually believe that ethics, for example, is detrimental to a person, and so a truly selfish person would shun ethics? (You think ethics are a necessary evil?) > Don't believe that the end justifies the means? According to Rand, nice > guys finish last, so you're obviously a loser. Err, huh? Are you saying that Ayn Rand argued that the end justifies the means or that they don't? And what did Rand say about "nice guys"? What the heck are you talking about? DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message