http://www.wopsr.net/archives/115 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:26:30 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.wopsr.net/archives/115/comment-page-1#comment-2427 ragnar Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:06:23 +0000 http://wopsr.net/archives/115#comment-2427 there is no way that he is an objectivist. Objectivism is about the preservation of life, specifically when no force has been used against you. There was a big discussion about that at John Galt's home in the gulch... there is no way that he is an objectivist. Objectivism is about the preservation of life, specifically when no force has been used against you. There was a big discussion about that at John Galt’s home in the gulch...

]]> http://www.wopsr.net/archives/115/comment-page-1#comment-1103 d.b. Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:08:16 +0000 http://wopsr.net/archives/115#comment-1103 The Ayn Rand character Daniel Plainview most closely resembles is Reardon. He is a flawed objectivist, but less so than Reardon. Daniel believes morality is an absolute, there is no grey area for him. He murders the con man who poses as his brother because the man is a thief, stealing his life and his sympathy undeservedly. Plainview thinks back to when he was crawling across jagged rock with a broken leg, and how that sweat and blood was being stolen from him by this con man... I can think of no more suitable reaction for a moral absolutist than to kill him. And the preacher, he kills for being a hypocrite, which is exactly what he would do. For him morality wasn't some abstract concept, it was a life and death matter. The Ayn Rand character Daniel Plainview most closely resembles is Reardon. He is a flawed objectivist, but less so than Reardon. Daniel believes morality is an absolute, there is no grey area for him. He murders the con man who poses as his brother because the man is a thief, stealing his life and his sympathy undeservedly. Plainview thinks back to when he was crawling across jagged rock with a broken leg, and how that sweat and blood was being stolen from him by this con man... I can think of no more suitable reaction for a moral absolutist than to kill him. And the preacher, he kills for being a hypocrite, which is exactly what he would do. For him morality wasn’t some abstract concept, it was a life and death matter.

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