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ElboRuum

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2. The last type...
Sat Jan 19, 2013, 01:20 PM
Jan 2013

...I disagree with the characterization.

I would find them to be "uberRandians". The end result of following Rand's objectivism to its conclusion is to evince a willful contempt for societies with rules which limit the individuals actions. Certainly such a person would be more than happy to use society's contrivances, such as police protection, paved roads, etc. without an ounce of hypocrisy. Isn't a fair assessment of objectivism taken to this extreme the willing practice of taking advantage of society's benefit without returning anything to it in a demonstrative display of contempt for that society?

Contrarily, I find the third group to be the most embracing of the implicit societal parasitism which defines the objectivist ideal.

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