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study RATIONAL self-interest....

Haiti? Justice?

Self interest is always present. Rational self interest is not always present.
From The Objectivist's Ethics.
"A being who does not know automatically what is true or false, cannot know automatically what is right or wrong, what is good for him or evil. Yet he needs that knowledge in order to live. He is not exempt from the laws of reality, he is a specific organism of a specific nature that requires specific actions to sustain his life. He cannot achieve his survival by arbitrary means nor by random motions nor by blind urges nor by chance nor by whim. That which his survival requires is set by his nature and is not open to his choice. What is open to his choice is only whether he will discover it or not, whether he will choose the right goals and values or not. He is free to make the wrong choice, but not free to succeed with it. He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see. Knowledge, for any conscious organism, is the means of survival; to a living consciousness, every “is” implies an “ought.” Man is free to choose not to be conscious, but not free to escape the penalty of unconsciousness: destruction. Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer — and that is the way he has acted through most of his history."

HUGE, LOL!

I suggest the most remote and least hospitable of the Aleutians.

I can't argue much because I don't see all the data either. However, it seems Massie is more of a Republican never Trumper than a team player. He could screw us the same way McCain did on Obummercare, so I wouldn't mind him being replaced. Truth: I voted for Trump the "savant" three times because it overshadows the "child". It seems like Massie and others see it the other way around. Besides, I see the child often coming off rather humorous like one of OUC's sarcastic memes that also carries a message. The left has no sense of humor so their propaganda machine makes a big deal out of it all. I just shake my head and smile. I am disappointed to see the tiff going on between Trump and Massie. Same as the unfriendly banter between Trump and Cruz some time back.

"Whoever is on the list gets dropped onto the island ............."
They're gonna need a bigger island.

imo, it's Trump that doesn't make sense, but I'm sure I don't see all the data.
Often the actions do not appear to be rational.
Trump is a savant in a few areas and childish in others.

A lot to absorb because there is such a multidimensional face hiding the rot within. "They" keep inviting us to walk to their guillotine, but maybe it's time we invited them to walk to ours just to prove no one is above the law.

My take is Ayn Rand draws a difference between rational self interest (Virtue of Selfishness) and flat out greed as they are not the same thing, unlike the left that tries to equate the two.

I get mixed thoughts on Massie. He gets great reviews from some conservative organizations, like the NRA, but why the friction with Trump? Doesn't make sense sometimes.

Wow, OUC, nice choices of memes for this topic. Thanks for the page by page synopsis. The different Trump smiles for the first and last memes are just right - check-this-out to I-win-again! LOL

The last one says it all.

Both opened for me. How's this 'un?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ag-...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ag-...

Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life. Ayn Rand

"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." Thomas Jefferson

Dang thing won't open for me . . .

Ho, hum! Me dino just wants to conclude all this prolonged Russia Russia Russia Epstein Epstein Epstein Schiff with a long story short.
The very last meme in the above batch sums up every crooked TDS Democrat Party effort to smear their Orange Man Oh Please Oh Please Be Proven Bad.
Woops! Good golly!
Me dino left here just to run into a very timely Fox News Release~~~https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ag-...

Hopefully all comes out...

Massie is right.
I hope their fight is orchestrated to get more evidence.

"Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone." - Ayn Rand

Kill the government's loan guarantees and the cost of college education will precipitously fall.
However, the question will remain:
What can bright humans study in college that won't be superseded by AI before graduation?

Something needs to be part of the discussion here. I'm shocked that it needs to be said, but I'm just about the only one I've ever heard say it.... By transition to this new paradigm where we have this chicken-egg situation where debt becomes the new paradigm to finance college while the cost of it explodes... Then, people are forced to live in debt during a period of their life when they REALLY need to be investing for their future and their children's' college educations. I always thought this paradigm would be short-lived because it's unsustainable. The middle-class can't really endure it for very long. My college degree was, not bagging, one of the greatest engineering degrees available and the whole thing (in the 80s) cost me about $35K (food, housing...everything). I graduated with no debt. What a blessing that was.

I think there may be something to that. The stuff that I happen to do is what I'd call "bleeding edge". As a result, there's little to none of it on the internet. That would buy me time if I needed it. Luckily, I don't. Trying to get my son to go with a two-pronged approach. Get your PGA card to teach golf, and learn a trade like welding. He'll have good job security if he wants it.