Brant Gaede

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    Pelosi: "We're going to impeach!" Trump: "please, please, don't throw me into that briar patch!" --Brant
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    Ghate may be as he says an "expert" on Rand's philosophy, but doesn't say we shouldn't have elected Trump. That would have let Clinton and the left and deep state out of the bag. Trump is a cultural warrior par excellent and we are in a cultural war. The left is being smashed in a way Rand could not, but she laid the intellectual foundations for Trump doing what he's doing. The left gave up all intellectual pretensions 50 years ago with the Vietnam War protests. They are power seekers and wielders and have always been so just below the now disintegrating surface. As for Rand despising Trump: well, you can despise the past, not a non-existent future. Ghate's just ad h-ing him with a Rand club. --Brant maybe post-Trump we can go back into the world (after making the sign of the dollar)
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    Please fix the link. Thx. --Brant nevermind; it works as quoted by me--somehow
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    At least ARI didn't keep changing its name. --Brant
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    Thank you for posting this.. --Brant
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    Read the condensed volume. In hardback. The six are hard to get and expensive. "The Fourth President: A Life of James Madison" --Brant
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    My grandfather was a personal friend of DL Chambers who published most of his books likely making little money for Bobbs Merrill, including his one and really not so good but interesting novel, "Friendly Cove." This is the guy who told A. Ogden No for "The Fountainhead." --Brant
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    The Bill of Rights was a limitation on federal not state power. After the Civil War the "Civil War Amendments" changed that. Irving Brant, "The Bill of Rights, It's Origin and Meaning", 1965, pp 3,4 --Brant
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    A sucker. --Brant
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    Still, a right need not be enumerated. That was settled by the Civil War. The expansion of Federal over State power in this context is the SCOTUS telling the States and sundry they cannot violate a human right. Thus, is there a right for a woman to have an abortion? You answered yes only you called it sovereignty. You could have called it privacy except it's mealy mouthed. --Brant
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    Actually, I wasn't trying to invoke Objectivism. I never do except when I say I am. My only point was a human being includes biology. --Brant we may be over-referencing Rand my Objectivism expertise comes from not being an expert on Objectivism as classically and/or officially rendered (see Peikoff) so man qua man is just as fundamental as biology
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    A right does not need to be enumerated. The right to privacy meant a right to get an abortion, but the Court didn't want to say that. --Brant
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    Saying "biology is fundamental" is saying "man qua man" isn't? --Brant
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    Is abortion an initiation of force against another human being? Man's freedom of action in a social context can only be violated by the initiation of force. Do the unborn lacking the social context get dehumanized through logic and semantics? Forcing a woman to have an abortion is hands down a violation of her rights. Forcing a woman not to have an abortion . . . . My old position from 30 years ago is still my position: the unborn not able to survive outside of the mothers's womb is part of her body--part of her-- and she is free to do as she wants. Brain waves (socially) don't count. --Brant
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    Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! --Brant
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    Nobody. They are a human political-philosophical invention. But not arbitrary. You use rights by moral-ethical right. That is, you are not initiating force against another person or persons. True, this has to be put into law and properly maintained therein. --Brant Rand's definition is still operative though it may need improving
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    Human life begins at conception. This has nothing to do, however, with rights' theory. Attach a right to life to it and it's religious dogma or faith. Human life beginning with brain activity is yet up in the air respecting theory. --Brant
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    Using a truth to hide the truth makes a lie. --Brant
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    The fundamental grounding for human rights is human nature. Brains applied to biology. Brains are biological too. Thus ideology is neither first nor second to biology; it's just using your brains. An unborn baby has no right to life according to Objectivism. I think that's much too severe. But Rand came out of Jewish culture which seems to be much more amenable than Christian to abortion. If she had an abortion herself in the 1930s, her stance may be that of obviating guilt. In any case she resorted to simplicity and abortion is beyond simplicity. --Brant
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    I think we need to differentiate between philosophy and ideology. Everybody has a philosophy. We can even say a culture has a philosophy. It's likely a mess full of contradictions. Then we bring in ideology and the real fun begins. --Brant a philosophy is the operating software of volitional human consciousness
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    Quo vadis, philosophy? --Brant
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    "Kill the human being inside her." I'm all in favor of cultural disapprobation of abortion if only for the mother to not suffer a lifetime of regret and guilt. I've never heard of a mother regretting bringing a healthy baby to term though one must assume there are a few such. My very liberal mother regretting trying to abort her first born and favorite child, my sister. That was for the rest of her life. Her consequent attitude was if you do the sex you have the baby. --Brant
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    Rights come out of ideology referencing human nature. First you make sense then you invent philosophy then you act accordingly. Biology trumping philosophy means no philosophy. You are inhabiting a contradiction. That a woman can't take a morning after pill makes no sense at all. ---Brant
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    Please modify the definition of a human right to fit your understanding of what it should encompass. --Brant