Month: October 2002

  • North Korea's Making Nukes!

    If you read my blog from August, you’d know that I suspected that some of that expertise the U.S. is putting into building North Korea a nuclear reactor might not just be used for peaceful purposes. Not surprisingly, N. Korea just admitted to having an active nuclear weapons development program, rejected its previous anti-nuclear agreement,…

  • Post: Why theft is always self-destructive.

    [October 15, 2002] After tonight’s meeting I had a debate with a friend of mine (the only other Objectivist on this list) I took the opposite position of the one I held tonight and played devils advocate as he tried to prove why theft is always wrong. Take a look, and skip to the bottom…

  • Notes: David’s Brief Case for Objective Morality:

      David’s Brief Case for Objective Morality: October 15, 2002   The are two forms of matter in the universe: living and nonliving, distinguished by the fact that living matter is mortal   All lifeforms, including humans must satisfy certain needs (ie food, air, shelter, etc) in order to stay alive These needs are specific…

  • Listserv: On the Nature of Free Will and Volition

      The debate between free will and determinism is one of the most ancient in philosophy and has led to many misconceptions about what the various positions are. For this reason, before I go into explaining just what free will is, I have to cover what it is not. The major positions on the nature…

  • Nothing exciting happening lately…but Tim’s kitten is pretty cute: Update: I forgot all about my b-day, which I really didn’t do much on, though I got some nice presents ($)

  • Bates v. State Bar of Arizona (USSC 1977)

    “The key to professionalism, it is argued, is the sense of pride that involvement in the discipline generates. It is claimed that price advertising will bring about commercialization, which will undermine the attorney’s sense of dignity and self-worth. The hustle of the marketplace will adversely affect the profession’s service orientation, and irreparably damage the delicate…

  • Sinful Pleasures

    I remember a bully from my childhood who liked to beat up smart kids because he had no confidence in his academic ability, and violence was the only way that he could dominate his classmates. However, the bully was not the only person who had trouble keeping up: I constantly struggled to do well in…

  • Disney Socialism

    I just finished watching the 1998 Disney movie “A Bug Life” and despite my hopes to the contrary, I was reminded how pervasive socialist ideology has become in absolutely everything Disney produces. I have come to expect collectivist overtones from Disney’s regular programming, but the extent to which its animated films are full of socialist…

  • Social Unsecurity

    A flash movie on the DNC website shows Bush pushing a senior off a cliff –the consequence of privatizing social security. Apparently, letting people decide what to do with their own money is the same thing as murder to liberals. I would remind the sane reader that social security is in fact much more insecure…

  • More Censorship

    In yet another example of censorship by so-called liberals, an order of ARI fliers titled In Moral Defense of Israel sent to the University of Toronto Objectivist Club for a speech have been denied by the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency, which claimed “The following goods [the pamphlets] have been detained for a determination of…