Difference between revisions of "A Non-Libertarian FAQ"
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; "The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." | ; "The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." | ||
| − | So much wrong packed into two sentences! (a) Which individual rights? Rights of conquest? Who decides what rights and their extent? (b) Change "when did you stop beating your wife" to "when did you start denying individual rights". (c) We can be defenders of minorities without defending ALL minorities. (d) Rand made plenty of choices of which individual minorities to defend (or admire) and which to despise and attack. | + | So much wrong packed into two sentences! (a) Which individual rights? Rights of conquest? Who decides what rights and their extent? (b) Change "when did you stop beating your wife" to "when did you start denying individual rights". (c) We can be defenders of minorities without defending ALL minorities. (d) Rand made plenty of choices of which individual minorities to defend (or admire) and which to despise and attack. (e) And yet those individuals comprise the entirety, a majority. Ayn Rand was not good at paradoxes. |
====Andre Marrou==== | ====Andre Marrou==== | ||
