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Fisking Ayn Rand on abortion: Why her utilitarianism is necessarily anti-man, anti-mind, anti-life.
“The don’t want to live. They want you to die.” –Ayn RandSaturday marks the six-month three year anniversary of the release of the first of the Planned Parenthood infanticide-mining videos. In all that time, the Ayn Rand Institute has had … Continue reading
If you want for there to be fewer abortions, show the world how wonderful children make it.
If you expect for kids to know that children are worth raising, first you will have to convince them that a child is something worth being.Photo by: Pedro KlienYesterday on Facebook, I linked to an article called 10 Ways You … Continue reading
What’s the egoist, atheist, anarchist take on abortion? Don’t fight it. Breed – and creed – it away.
Facts are facts. You cannot possibly havethe “freedom” to cancel the past.Photo by: ⅯeaganI’ve been bitching about abortion for 16 months now, and no one is more amazed by that fact that I am. It’s always been a deal for … Continue reading
Anti-#abortion theater: Getting right everything @YaronBrook and the #AynRand Institute get wrong.
Nature is just. Accordingly, you can’t slaughter your child without slaughtering your self, too.Photo by: Fibonacci BlueAs I noted yesterday, Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute is today putting on his cowardly lion costume, publicly pretending to answer any … Continue reading
I can ask the Ayn Rand Institute’s Yaron Brook anything? How many of my abortion questions can he evade?
Tune in Saturday for“As the Worm Squirms.”This is choice: ASK YARON ANYTHING! Ask Yaron and you shall receive. It’s true. This Saturday, February 20, Yaron Brook will devote the entire show to answering your questions. Join Yaron here, at 2:30 … Continue reading
Telling @LOR3LE1 I love her with a one-two-three punch to #abortion – all as #MyKindOfBenedy.
I am proud to know you, @LOR3LE1. @LOR3LE1 follows me. I’ve never felt such visibility. To capture her could set me free from self-contained obscurity. So please don’t let’s drive her away. I am ebullient, not addle-pated. I am rich … Continue reading
The worst result of Yaron Brook’s abortion evasion? Victims of Objectivism still eat their young.
Why do the victims of Objectivism eat their young? Yaron Brook told them to.I was all over Yaron Brook of The Ayn Rand Institute in 2015 for his cowardly, shameful, ignominious evasion of the Planned Parenthood videos. I went easier … Continue reading
In its ugly #abortion evasion, what else are @YaronBrook and the #AynRand Institute neglecting?
“What, me worry?”After almost three months of exposure of the gruesome nature of the intrauterine infanticide championed by novelist Ayn Rand, Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute has to-date had this to say: “La, la, la, la, la!” That’s … Continue reading
Attn. Yaron Brook: Your shameful silence on abortion spotlights the Ayn Rand Institute’s intellectual bankruptcy.
Objectivism has always been at war with the obvious, uncontested facts of human gestation. That war is now all the way lost. You’re not clipping your toenails, you are murdering your own child. Who knew?Photo by: Morten LiebachAs I write … Continue reading
The Victims of the Sanction: Yaron Brook and the Ayn Rand Institute must respond on abortion.
Attn: Yaron Brook: Cum taces, clamas. When you say nothing, you say everything.To whom must the Ayn Rand Institute respond? The people who murdered their own children and destroyed their still-born families on its bad advice. Here are the egregious … Continue reading
Doing the job the Ayn Rand Institute is afraid to do: Abortion is incompatible with egoism.
How will you feel about yourself going forward if, as the only possible protector of the life of a helpless innocent, you choose to exterminate that life? Egoists ask those kinds of questions. Juveniles do not.Ayn Rand’s moral philosophy is … Continue reading
Three story angles the Ayn Rand Institute can use to continue to evade the abortion scandals.
“Don’t bother me! Don’t bother me! Don’t bother me!”James Taggart’s first words in Atlas Shrugged are, “Don’t bother me! Don’t bother me! Don’t bother me!” That’s a nice intro, because that’s how an Incandescent/Cautious temperament responds to a crisis. The … Continue reading
Is the Ayn Rand Institute’s indefensible stand on abortion part of a clandestine intelligence op?
Spies everywhere!Photo by: JD HancockWriter David McGowan is the author of an enchanting conspiracy theory: Was the Laurel Canyon music scene of the late ’60s and early ’70s a sophisticated intelligence operation devised to defuse the anti-Vietnam-War movement? As with … Continue reading
Evading abortion got you down? Rhapsodize premeditated torture and murder instead.
Paper tiger flexes his tonsils, soils himself, sullies Western Civilization. Piers Morgan: ‘My highest moral virtue is my ferocious animal savagery.’ With emphasis: Rhapsodizing violence is evil. It is even more self-destructive if, like Morgan, you know your homicidal rage … Continue reading
Eliciting a response from the Ayn Rand Institute on the Planned Parenthood abortion scandals.
Blood makes noise. I’ve known Don Watkins net.wise for 15 years or so, and I met him in real life last Fall in Tampa. I comped him a copy of Father’s Day – because the last thing the world needs … Continue reading