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[quote user="bbeljefe"] Once you let go of the need for a partner who meets the common description of beautiful or handsome, you'll find a partner who far exceeds that simple description. I found it by actually becoming friends with a girl for whom I had no initial physical attraction. Likewise, our longest married/together and happiest
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I don't find your arguments compelling.It's an open letter so he is going to refer to her directly. The Either-or-fallacy seems to hold though since what would be the other position? Childs refers to specific passages in her books in later parts of his essay, see here for the full text http://www.isil.org/ayn-rand/childs-open-letter.html There's
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I recently listened to this video: if Roy Childs' essay was read by Rand and she didn't change her stance (which as far as I know she remained a minarchist), why is everyone so into her? It seems she is not a philosopher ready to examine the foundations of her thinking, as much as someone who post-facto justifies a philosophy she developed as
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An that's just the tip of iceberg...
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I didn't think Stef did a great job arguing the case against IP in this podcast generally. The replicator raygun point was not dealt with.This is in the realm of possibility with 3D scanners and 3D printers. So why not deal with it? Instead focussing on the point about building a bike factory. Other products don't need a massive factory to build
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Good points. I believe that's where your opportunity lies. These comedians haven't been able to present their views in sufficiently proselytizing manner. Maybe you'll manage to create routines that push the thought process, not just the conclusions, of ancapism. If I had more time, I'd love to work on this myself as I've been thinking
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[quote user="Moriartis"] I definitely feel this way as well. My current problem is that the idea behind all of it just makes me angry and sad(very recent convert to the ideology), making it hard to write comedy about it as it just spirals into an angry rant that isn't really funny [/quote] I hear you. Ya, give it time. But that's the
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Truth does sound a bit pretentious, but from a PR standpoint it might just work. It's an intriguing title for one. Nothing fancy. Short. It makes me want to click play, don't you think? Truth has been used just once for an unknown movie : http://www.imdb.com/find?q=truth&s=all If reviewers start blasting the title and it generates controversy
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Thanks for sharing. Sharing ancap ideas using comedy would be a valuable contribution to the world.