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What if Car Insurance was a Right?
by Jason Stotts This is the question that Dr. John Lewis (Duke) asks in his new essay on CapMag. The essay highlights the absurdity of claiming a right to insurance and the problems that result. Suppose Car Insurance was Considered to be a Right?
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Objectivist Blog Carnival
Welcome to the August 6, 2009 edition of Objectivist round up. Objectivism is the Philosophy of Ayn Rand. She defined it, most eloquently, as a “philosophy for living on Earth.” In that spirit, we present this week’s round up. —————————————- Deb Ross presents What you get if you ask posted at Mariposario, saying, “An aspect…
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The Rise of Socialism
by Jason Stotts In George Orwell’s 1984, the world is ruled by “Big Brother” and his socialist regime. Individuals are property of the state and must serve its pleasure, able to own nothing: not even their own thoughts. Indeed, Big Brother seeks to eliminate “thought crime” through the use of “newspeak” and social conditioning exercises.…
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Objectivism and Sexuality: YouTube
by Jason Stotts My speech “Objectivism and Sexuality” that was delivered at the Ohio Objectivist Society on June 14th is now available on YouTube. Special thanks to William Parker of the OOS for inviting me to speak and for taking the time to put up the videos on YouTube. The link to the videos is…
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Sheeple
by Jason Stotts (subtext: Hey, what are the odds — five Ayn Rand fans on the same train! Must be going to a convention.) I love XKCD and I think it’s great that Objectivism is getting into mainstream thought. I think that this comic shows a very important point that Objectivists need to guard against:…
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Wedding!
by Jason Stotts For those of you who may be wondering, I haven’t been posting lately because I got married a couple of weeks ago and only recently returned from our honeymoon. I fully intend to return to blogging in the near future.
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Happy Independence Day!
by Jason Stotts I want to wish all of the readers of Erosophia a happy Independence Day! I think it is important today to reflect on the reasons why America is great and for what reasons our founding fathers risked their lives, freedom, and property to rebel against England. It was certainly not because they…
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Bisexual Species
by Jason Stotts Scientific American has a really interesting article up called “Bisexual Species” which deals with the subject of bisexuality in animals that is worth a read. One thing that I think is seriously inhibiting research in this area is the current idea that there are two rigid categories of sexual orientation: “homosexual” and…
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