Comments on: Extradition Act – Ratify, Reform or Remove

By: Melissa

Melissa — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:14:35 +0000

Yes, I’ll second Mac – get back here here where you belong Jaq! C’mon you’ve been too long

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By: Macarnie

Macarnie — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:10:58 +0000

Gott sei dank Jaq . Back where you belong.

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By: Jack Ramsey

Jack Ramsey — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 18:31:04 +0000

jaq

I was on the point of sending out a search party! Where have you been? So pleased you’re back!

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By: jaq

jaq — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:10:21 +0000

Saw your speech in the house Boris – it was excellent. Well said.

Can’t agree with you on nuclear power though.

For all my ‘virtual’ friends on the blog, hiya! I’m still feeling like death warmed up though so keep the home fires burning a little longer. I’ll be waving my little ‘vote Boris’ flag from the sickroom for just a while longer.

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By: raincoaster

raincoaster — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 10:21:40 +0000

Is Stephen Hawking around? I’m sure he could throw some light on that. Of course, so could a flat earther…

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By: Macarnie

Macarnie — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 08:41:43 +0000

Rand and Kant:
Seems rather apposite that these two words, in German, are closly related. They both mean, amongst other things , ‘edge’
The edge is as far from the edge as possible; to paraphrase raincoaster.

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By: raincoaster

raincoaster — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 01:04:58 +0000

Only that he’s about as far from Rand as it is possible to be, that his philosophy is one I think contains the truth (ie PWP and I are disagreeing again) and his name makes really great puns.

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By: idlex

idlex — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 17:45:42 +0000

life is what we are given at birth and it is our responsibility as individuals to make the most of it (PWP)

Nope. Can’t buy that either.

We aren’t given a life, on a plate, to make what we will of it.

I somehow suspect that we are going to disagree about everything.

And what’s Kant got to do with this, raincoaster?

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By: raincoaster

raincoaster — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 13:28:51 +0000

I don’t think the soveriegnity of the individual and the lack of coersion to be the foundation of morality as much as I see them as responsibilities and rights, but this is perhaps just a difference of perspective, rather than an actual disagreement. Kant argue with you.

(Sorry, it was there. I had to)

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By: Paul W. Primavera

Paul W. Primavera — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 13:17:14 +0000

Raincoaster,

I, too, have some big disagreements with Ayn Rand’s version of Objectivism. Morality existed long before she formulated her philosophy which, contrary to the Rand-roids, is hardly the be-all and end-all of “Objective Truth”. I find that most Rand-roids are as fanatical as the Islamic Fascists or American right-wing religious zealots whom they oppose. Whenever someone says they are the arbiters of “Objective Truth”, beware.

That being said, I firmly believe that all true morality is based on an individual’s right to his own life and liberty, and on the non-initiation of force. No one has the right to take away your life (unless, of course, you initiate force that requires the other person’s self-defense) or your freedom or your lawfully acquired property. And no one has the right to initiate force against you.

For example, laws and religious regulations against things such as homosexuality are NOT based on morality. If two men or two women wish to marry, then the government should have NO say in the matter. If they love each other, then how does that initiate force against me? The world is in short supply of love, so let them be.

Thus, I have found that any so-called moral principles based on anything other than the soveriegnty of the individual and the non-initiation of force to NOT be moral principles.

But I am NO moral expert, having lived a life of animal abandon when I was a submarine sailor a long time ago.

And I may well be wrong (as my wife constantly reminds me). I am not so pig headed (or at least not as much any more) that I can’t (with some minor arm-twisting) admit when I am wrong.

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