tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25911697.post6024666748316589825..comments2024-03-17T03:14:53.657-06:00Comments on mrheartland: Meanwhile, at Pandagon: Or, Strict Constructionalism is so Funny it Makes You CryJoshua Beranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17376406803740640389noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25911697.post-26959113358496990112011-01-10T13:57:54.915-06:002011-01-10T13:57:54.915-06:00My concept of individual rights is based on one pr...My concept of individual rights is based on one principle. It's not a rationalization for my own "worship of power". The Right in current politics fly under the banner of capitalism, though they do not claim any moral considerations nor do they even actually want pure capitalism. They want the same corrupt state-economics, which benefits the already rich, as the Left does, who try to implement state-economics benefiting the poor. Both systems are detestable and morally corrupt in my opinion. <br /><br />The principle behind pure capitalism is that a person may not initiate the use of force against another individual, nor may he be subject to such force. Freedom is essentially freedom from force. Rand believed people could settle their disputes with their minds and through reason. A truly free market, which mind you has never existed, is aimed at abolishing the use of force from human affairs.<br /><br />Rand was advocating complete separation of state and economics, which has never occurred in the history of the world, and is certainly not representative of the present system, which is unfortunately misconstrued as a capitalism in the eyes of those who don't understand its essence. <br /><br />Rand and laissez-faire are not "against equality", they are against the use of force. They fully advocate equality in terms of equal treatment under the law. Egalitarian principles advocate unequal treatment under the law.Blakenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25911697.post-83949120864878997402011-01-09T13:42:59.683-06:002011-01-09T13:42:59.683-06:00I was comparing Randianism to Origionalism because...I was comparing Randianism to Origionalism because both are attempts to believe that it is possible to be fiercely against equality and still for freedom. <br /><br />If your concept of 'the rights of the individual' is focused wholly on the individuals right to heroically battle for supremacy in the sacred free market, then you do not know what freedom is. You are only trying to sanctify your own worship of power.Joshua Beranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17376406803740640389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25911697.post-8487365167321536872011-01-08T14:23:19.216-06:002011-01-08T14:23:19.216-06:00Rand's views politically were based on the rig...Rand's views politically were based on the rights of the individual. How is this equivalent to "denying the civil rights of people we don't like"?blakenoreply@blogger.com