[Am-info] Ayn Rand Institute?

[Mitch Stone]

On Monday, March 18, 2002, at 04:59 PM, Felmon Davis wrote:
>
> so Objectivism can't have a theory of 'side-effects' or, in this
> case, 'indirect causation'? the gun-shooter _directly_ causes a shot
> to go off and _indirectly_ causes a harmful panic. we usually assign
> blame when indirect harmful consequences of an action are
> foreseeable.
>
> I guess the point is, Objectivists don't like being tangled up in
> subtleties.
>
> I've sometimes have had arguments with people who think the only
> motive is self-interest. they get obsessive and consider it
> axiomatic.
>
> looking for one big truth, I guess.

They are opposed to all restrictions on the free exercise of 
self-expression. It's not so much a matter of a failure to consider 
subtleties, as it is the assumption that one answer suits all questions.

   Mitch Stone
   mitch@accidentalexpert.com