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So delighted to see your latest MAGAzean issue, ouc. It reads better than, makes so much more sense than, has great humor compared to those MSM turds. In fact, there is no comparison between excellence and crap. If there was a Pulitzer prize for actual news backed by common sense I would nominate you :)

Rational self interest could be construed as: Rational Celf interest: Every cell in the body is responsible for it's own survival (and happiness relating to this question); so once those conditions are satisfied, the Value is always (automatically) passed on.

Passing on Value is done unconsciously by one that has taken care of self first. But what many have done Consciously probably was at the risk of sacrifice or aggrandizement . . . sometimes both!

Can't argue with you here. I'll just add that not only have they not read Plato, but they haven't read, (or understood) Our constitution either!

Some of what you think is childish is just OLD AGE!
Take it from me!
LMAO

Me dino came in late due to having company over today.
I was a Christian before I read Atlas Shrugged, all the while I read it and remained so after I added it to my book collection. Why did I read it? Have a brother, an ex-Catholic Protestant just like me, who Christmas gifted me with all 3 Atlas Shrugged DVDs which I also added to my DVD collection. I view Ayn Rand as someone special to both study and listen to. Save for one thing.
When I landed a month over 12 years ago, Christians were spoken of like idiots here. It inspired me to select Allosaurus for a moniker which means "different lizard." Thought it best to keep my mouth shut at first. There was a lot to learn that did not pertain to religion. Then someone started a discussion entitled "What Is Easter?" or something close to that. A brand new female member mentioned going to church. She was quite harshly insulted. I lost my temper and threw a hissy fit at the insulter. Powers that be deleted everything I wrote and I expected to be tossed off this board. Just about all of 12 years ago. Oh, well . . .

Survivor: Brutality Live

No rules, last one standing gets a pardon.
Waiting for the first season's episode to start!

The Bluster is on purpose, not genetic but poking others so we see them in new light, also, part of the NYC survival behavior.
Lots of NYC kritters end up here at the CT shoreline every summer. We Know them well.

While not exactly stated, I just assumed you could do a simple pigeon holing process between:
A) Rational Self-Interest
B) Irrational Self-Interest

The latter exemplifying the destruction of others, or other peoples properties, in seeking your own "self-interest". Profiting on a VAXX that you knew would increase mortality, decrease birth rates, and lead to more cancers and Excess deaths for years to come...

While you could argue it's all in your self-interest, I believe it is irrational to do so. Because eventually, if EVERYONE acted that way, your family/friends and even yourself may end up being a victim...

And if it doesn't work globally for others because what it does to you, then I believe that is where it becomes Irrational.

It seemed obvious to me, so I never thought about. Now that I have. I had to play with it a bit... To end up where I just stated.

Interesting.

The Cardinal virtues of Catholicism are Faith, Hope, and Charity. I don't think Protestestants can deny that these are key to Christianity. Faith is belief without evidence. Hope is hope of everlasting life in Heaven, for which there is no evidence. And Charity is loving God and your fellow man above all else, which is outright altruism in the sense Ayn Rand meant.

Can you deny that this is the core of Christian teaching?

But I get it, there are many churches in America, and a beautiful thing that has happened in America is that many church leaders think that they need to emphasize living the good life now. That's very positive, although only Christian in the way my Mama wanted Christianity to be.

"It wants you to sacrifice yourself and your happiness on Earth..." I never got that from it. Appreciate your comment.

Well done, AGAIN OGC!

Haiti!f Let them fight each other and the locals to whom they have given millions of gov't money and have gotten millions of private money back.......and the remaining locals are ... "annoyed" - should make a bundle on PPV....

Did not notice that until you pointed it out - thanks!

Agree with you assessment. Basically as I see it also. To WRT's point, stating that we do not buy into the sacrificing and grovelling that the current religions "believe or practice" does put somewhat at odds with parts of the Bible. But agreeing with his Mama, do not believe in a God that would not want us happy - with the caveat of "as long as it does not infringe on someone else's happiness".

Appreciate that...

I guess as Christian you should read the Bible more.

But, hey, my Mama used to say she couldn't believe in a God who wouldn't want her to be happy. So she made that an axiom of her religious views, though she considered herself a Christian.

I always hated the fact that although we were a bazillion times more powerful than ridiculous characters like Kim Jon Whatever, we were always afraid of what they might do, because "they're crazy."

Now we have someone in charge who has spent a lifetime making people think he's crazy, so the entire world is now afraid of us for a change.

I always laugh when otherwise-intelligent Americans claim ridiculous things like "Trump is crazy!" and "He might start a nuclear war!", because that is what we want our enemies to believe, while otherwise-intelligent Americans are not supposed to be so easily fooled by the obviously-orchestrated Trump show.

I'm going to go way out on a limb here, but I consider myself a Christian and I don't think Jesus Christ would buy into all this sacrificing and grovelling virtually all the current "Christian" religions would have us believe and practice. But that's just me.

Love this answer!

No idea what the logical morass about Bondi and Congress means. DHS is NOT the AG. Congress can NOT shut down the AG. This only makes sense to an old guy watching Fox, and screaming at the TV all day.

Holy smokes, ssipress, I definitely go along with #1 and #3. However, now you have me thinking there may be a relationship between #2 and #4. It also seems the madman entertainer is winning all over the place on America's behalf. He is not an idiot as some would have us believe. I did not waste my votes and it appears, neither did you.

Unfortunately, the NFL doesn't have to "win back Conservatives," because the overwhelming majority of them continue to remain loyal to the NFL, despite how much the organization hates them.

It is tellingly pathetic that instead of Conservatives finally responding to the NFL's contempt for them by refusing to pay any attention to it, they think they're hurting the NFL by urging each other to "not watch the halftime show of the Super Bowl."

How utterly weak and embarrassing.

As long as NFL fans remain addicted to the league, the league will continue to disrespect and laugh at its fans, and its disrespect for its fans will continue to get more and more blatant.

I myself, a former lifetime rabid NFL fan, stopped paying attention to anything to do with it several years ago when the organization allowed and encouraged its players to disrespect themselves, their country, and the overwhelming majority of their fanbase with the whole "kneeling for the National Anthem" disgrace.

I never knew there were so many other (and better) things to do with my Fall Sunday afternoons, and Sunday nights, and Monday nights, and Thursday nights...

Coveting is a strong word, but failing to recognize beauty is just silly as well as self-defeating. I do tell them, and their husbands. Everyone is happy, because they all trust me implicitly. I use adjectives like "beautiful", gorgeous", and "striking", and avoid one's like "hot". Although I do call one Mexican buddies Greek wife, the "Hot Greek" because she is beautiful and quite a handful (very active in Republican politics ... and everything). We are co celebrating our birthdays this Saturday (not the day but close for both).

It is easy to foresee the limits of self-interest if one's perspective is narrow. For example, killing another is fine for self-interest, until one realizes one will be at minimum ostracized, and one needs and values the contributions and value of others. Ayn directly addresses this (but I don't recall the reference. Maybe that twerp, EWE, can quote it from his idiot homework assignments).

In my "reasonable libertarian" mind (as opposed to radical hard on Libertarians), there is a similar place for government's role. A capitalist system WILL find a monotonic optimum, proven over and over. However, it is limited by local minima. If there is a massive investment required, the investors may not be able to recover their investments within their risk tolerance (or even their lifetimes). In this case, it will converge to a local minima, not a global minima. I argue the interstate highway system overcame such local minima. And yes, I recognize others don't agree, including Milton Friedman, but being in business, no one was going to make that investment, or overcome the local obstructions and build such a system. Maybe Elon would do it now, but we have already benefited from it for 70 years.
Of course there is the issue of shutting down a successful program when it is done, but that is another issue.

To me that is the government inverse, book ending self-interest.

I voted for Trump three times because:
1. He was by far the lesser of many evils
2. I wished my whole life that the US could possibly get our own leader who fits Nixon's "Madman Theory" and finally one came along
3. As someone who has failed in business so many times and kept coming back, I felt he was uniquely qualified to lead the failing US and possibly start to turn it around.
4. Almost every member of our federal government totally sucks, so we might as well be entertained while the disaster continues.