On Free Will...

by: Les Carpenter
Rational Nation USA
Liberty -vs- Tyranny


Continuing our journey into objectivism for the purpose of gaining a better understanding of the philosophy of Ayn Rand.

Taken from pp.55-72 of Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand, by Leonard Peikoff.

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  1. Les CarpenterTue Jun 19, 09:42:00 AM EDT

    This post was recently visited a "anon" who left a comment not worthy of posting in my opinion, so it made it's way to the spam bucket. The postwas a meandering irerational diatribe against everything a free society should stand for.

    After I sent the remarks on their way to the the home for irrelevant comments I visited a liberal site, Progressive Eruptions and lo and behold the same comment was posted there.

    After thinking about it I came to the realization that anon had actually given me a gift really.

    After rereading the comment again at Progressive Eruptions I determined the comment needed to be used as the seed for a post accurately representing Rand and her philosophy Objectivism against the statist philosophy of anon.

    Post will be coming soon to a site near you. In the meantime all I can say, to crib Mr. "T" is... "I pity the fool"

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