Clearly.
You act like I’ve said that A is better than B if A makes more money than B. I’ve never said that and don’t believe it.
Really, Frank, you are doing quite a nice job of being the guy who charges into a thread with pre-conceived notions about what I must believe based on your own prejudices. And you are showing that what you think I believe has absolutely no basis in reality.
Simle answer, Frank. Your ethical standards do not depend on bad consequences to yourself. IMO that elevates your relative position in a major way.
Let’s do it. What’s the debate topic?
I’ll make mincemeat out of your ass like I have with Mr. “Excellent” in this thread.
Poly, what’s your cite that my ethical standards depend on bad consequences to me? You probably shouldn’t believe everything Varlosz says, you know.
Also, when’s that dude you know going to reveal himself to be the second coming of Jesus Christ? Any day now, I guess?
How many times has Rand said “I never said that” ? It seems higher than average.
If there is to be a winner and loser, it is not for you to decide. Why not let a neutral party judge? I nominate elucidator.
Not me, bud. I’ve got better things to do. You do too, or ought to have.
I’d bet it’s way higher than average. You see, I’m a bad person, so I must believe bad things, because I’m a bad person, and that’s what bad people do (i.e., believe bad things). It’s quite simple, really (which is why it appeals to the quite simple).
I’ve read you before. I’m familar with you. My feeling about what you believe is entirely based upon your posts. While it’s mildly interesting to see you scurry about and lie, it’s really not that interesting. Generally, when I post in one of your threads, it’s because there is no interesting thead about baseball at the time.
Well, I was going to suggest it was because you don’t articulate your views well, or like to imply negative things without overtly saying them (and thus having to take responsibility for them) by trying to skate a line on the edge of insulting yet still have some wiggle room when called on it…
But you being a bad person works, too. Frankly, a lot of the things I’ve seen you claim are irrational, ignorant and short-sighted, though in all fairness I’d be mildly annoyed by having to do charity work, too. You could probably pick a few mildly interesting cases with minimal effort, though, so my sympathy doesn’t go that far.
Please list my lies. Or are you just talking out your ass again?
Well, I can lead a liberal douche to water, but as soon as they get wind of the fact that I’m not just going to lay down and let them take whatever they want from me, they generally aren’t too inclined to drink.
Like spending time with two-year-olds?
I love when people post here to tell me that I’m doing something bad by posting here (e.g., either taking time away from work or my family). My kid’s asleep right now, chump.
I just thought it was funny, here you are wasting time arguing and fussing with all these people who are never gonna agree with you, and back earlier in the thread you said that doing pro bono work would take away time from your kid.
And that’s chumpette, I’ll have you know.
Upon skimming this thread…
I think it would be incorrect to call Rand bad. Moderately amoral and selfish, yes, not necessarily bad.
If he were a Dungeons and Dragons character, I’d say his alignment was chaotic neutral. (D&D alignments are actually good ways to think of people, oddly enough.)
I kind of understand him as a Randite; Ayn Rand claimed that charity degraded both the giver and receiver. If you think like that, then doing charity work, even when you promised to upon joining your profession, makes no sense.
I do not see the world in remotely the same manner as a Randite; from my point of view we advance as a society-or not at all.
But yes, I don’t know why he has to get all huffy about not doing his pro bono work…if it’s a matter of getting the firm good publicity, maybe he could do something else, like fund a law school scholarship for young Libertarians and make sure it gets into the papers with his firm’s name attached.
That might be more in line with his sensibilities,and wouldn’t take time from the kiddo.
Well, far be it from me to suggest a lawyer go easy on the whore metaphors, but case in point. So am I supposed to get all offended so you can turn around and say “I didn’t said you were a liberal douche…”
Anyway, you’ve thrown around the “liberal douche” bit a little too often and a little too indiscriminately for me to do anything but shrug at it now. It’s part of you not articulating your views well, I guess, since that’s the part of the quote you bolded.
Ayn Rand was a douchebag. Who cares if RR is consistent in his adherence to her douchey beliefs?
He’s a tax lawyer.