I try to keep an open mind about most ideas. As long as they aren't manifestly and obviously evil and destructive, I'll hear them and consider the merits. That said, I can't seriously engage with "objectivism" as promulgated by Ayn Rand and those who follow her. It's a philosophy so obviously detached from how people actually live that I can't see it working with actual humans.
It seems like a system that works on computers and the only individuals that would come close to that would be someone on the autism spectrum.
It seems like it is suggesting the "anti-lying agenda" and they have done experiments in that realm before. What they concluded is that it was great for the first couple of days, but soon the whole system fell apart.
@barefootstache I think people with autism spectrum disorders are the sort of people who aren't accounted for in an objectivist framework. my basic problem is that there's this notion of "free people freely making choices with no coercion" that doesn't account for people who have deficiencies in their capacity for making choices about their lives or who need help to live with the least amount of suffering.
