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My top 5 posts illuminating the Ayn Rand Institute’s intellectual paralysis over abortion.
“Why should we bother to reply to Kautski? He would reply to us, and we would have to reply to his reply. There’s no end to that. It will be quite enough for us to announce that Kautski is a … Continue reading
Who knew it would be so easy to bitchslap the Ayn Rand Institute over abortion?
Hard work pays off. I should have done this years ago. I did, of course, but not as well as I’m doing today. As always, I never think about something until I do, and then I think about it all … Continue reading
Why am I infanticide-shaming the Ayn Rand Institute? Because abortionism kills humanity itself.
Good grief…Intrauterine infanticide – abortion – is morally repugnant – and you don’t need for me to tell you that, do you? The ‘procedure’ itself is ugly, as are its secondary consequences, but being instrumentally involved in abortion makes us … Continue reading
Spanking the Ayn Rand Institute on abortion and Planned Parenthood: None so deserving.
Ahem.How can you tell The Ayn Rand Institute is run by thick-witted cowards? Blank out. Ayn Rand lived her whole life waiting to meet a man strong enough to turn her over his knee and show her what she always … Continue reading
Libertarians: You’ve been wrong about abortion all along. It’s time to rip off the band-aid.
If you’re driving the I-5 and you need some Immodium, don’t stop in Irvine. They’re fresh out.If you have given your moral sanction to abortion until now, it’s time to rip off the band-aid. Here’s why: Abortion and self-adoration: Do … Continue reading
For what other species of the earth would we argue for #abortion?
The ultimate in man-made marvels:The man-made extermination of man.Photo by: Kyle SimourdCall me Cassandra. My job, apparently, is to state the stunningly obvious facts no one has any intention of heeding. It’s a dirty job, but someone’s gotta do it. … Continue reading
If your ‘thought leader’ can’t tell you why abortion is evil – you’re going to the wrong church.
Like chattel slavery at the birth of the American experiment, abortion is the vicious contradiction upon which libertarianism foundered. I’m redeeming the quest for liberty by correcting this awful error.Photo by: sabianmaggyIt turns out people who eviscerate babies for a … Continue reading
The goal of #abortion-as-politics? Cultivating ‘Good Germans’ to both effect and surrender to genocide.
The actual political purpose of abortion-as-politics is to cultivate a population capable of both effecting and surrendering to genocide.It’s working.Photo by: Dylan WaltersIn one of the links back to 2004 I cited when we illustrated why putative-liberty-lovers always side with … Continue reading
Taking on Ayn Rand and Objectivism on abortion: A moral atrocity cannot somehow be a political sacrament.
From September of 2012, this is me at Richard Nikoley’s FreeTheAnimal.com talking about abortion in the context of nominally egoistic moral philosophies. Quoting a comment from Richard: Greg Swann has the best and only valid argument counter abortion: you have … Continue reading
Abortion and self-adoration: Do what you want, but don’t claim you can escape the consequences. You can’t.
Whether you like it or not, seeing your self committing atrocities is abhorrent to your mind, and no amount of rationalizing self-destructive behavior will turn vices into virtues.Rethinking your stand on abortion today? That seems wise to me. This is me … Continue reading
What do spree-killings, #YesAllWomen and #abortion all have in common? Fatherlessness.
Could this be what hell looks like?By: *saxFrom today’s homily at The Church of Splendor, a discussion of the latest spree-killing in the context of the on-going dismantling of the family as a redoubt against the therapeutic state. I’m finishing … Continue reading
Taking on abortion and the so-called “prudent predator” by video — with a shout out to the students of Ayn Rand.
I took up the fundamental immorality of abortion last week, and I addressed some additional issues in this week’s video/podcast. That particular chunk, about twelve minutes, is shown in the YouTube clip below. In the video, I focus on specious … Continue reading
Movie of the week: Evangelizing egoism, abortion and the prudent predator, more on the subjunctive and the works of Richard Mitchell.
This week’s video and podcast are linked below. The headline summarizes the content fairly well. With respect to the subjunctive, I’m hitting four ideas fairly briefly: Wanting, dreading, fearing the disapproval of other people and trying to have efficacy in … Continue reading
My only points of disagreement with Ayn Rand, libertarianism and scholarship in general: Everyone has been wrong about everything, going back forever.
My epistemology professor – a playful peripatetic.I have met a lot of big-O and biggish-O Objectivists over the years – people who were present in the salons at the Hotel Martinique, others who were actual invited guests to the show … Continue reading
Ayn Rand and me – why my homework is late…
Human thriving is not a solitary pursuit? Who knew?I am dilatory, plainly. More than a year since I’ve written anything here, and that story’s horrors bloom like mold spores. For two years and more, I’ve been stuck with a book … Continue reading