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Galt's speech/ justice

Posted by kddr22 5 months, 2 weeks ago to History
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"Justice is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake the character of men as you cannot fake the character of nature, that you must judge all men as conscientiously as you judge inanimate objects, with the same respect for truth, with the same incorruptible vision, by as pure and as rational a process of identification—that every man must be judged for what he is and treated accordingly, that just as you do not pay a higher price for a rusty chunk of scrap than for a piece of shining metal, so you do not value a rotter above a hero—that your moral appraisal is the coin paying men for their virtues or vices, and this payment demands of you as scrupulous an honor as you bring to financial transactions—that to withhold your contempt from men’s vices is an act of moral counterfeiting, and to withhold your admiration from their virtues is an act of moral embezzlement—that to place any other concern higher than justice is to devaluate your moral currency and defraud the good in favor of the evil, since only the good can lose by a default of justice and only the evil can profit—and that the bottom of the pit at the end of that road, the act of moral bankruptcy, is to punish men for their virtues and reward them for their vices, that that is the collapse to full depravity, the Black Mass of the worship of death, the dedication of your consciousness to the destruction of existence."

Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged Galt's speech


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    Posted by mhubb 5 months, 2 weeks ago
    the basic problem / question

    do the bastards acting for biden the usurper believe they are acting in the Name of Justice?

    do they believe their own lies?

    we can see their lies / corruption / treason

    but do they?
    are they acting in their own good faith?
    or
    do are they acting in the ends justify the means?
    or
    are they just corrupt and only seek power

    my answer to the question:: they only seek power and will do anything to hold it, anything
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      Posted by $ jbrenner 5 months, 2 weeks ago
      The lefties' "morality" is best exemplified by Voldemort from the Harry Potter series: “There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.”
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      • Posted by 5 months, 2 weeks ago
        An excellent analogy I had not thought of, but obviously Biden is not capable of being Voldemort but is puppet handlers are
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        • Posted by $ jbrenner 5 months, 2 weeks ago
          Ayn Rand presumes that each person is capable of ruling oneself and that no one has the right to presume that they can rule another person. The lefties make no such presumption. Although I agree with Ayn Rand on this point, perhaps this is the premise that Ayn Rand needed to check.
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        • Posted by diessos 5 months, 2 weeks ago
          Biden COULD be.. There are many times that I think the flubs, confusion, mumbling, etc are a ruse and he knows EXACTLY what he is doing. Kind of like Claudius, playing the fool.
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          • Posted by $ gharkness 5 months, 2 weeks ago
            Sometimes I wonder if he isn't close to outing himself....that look he gave when he turned at the end of the question about Trump's trial and guilty verdict. That was EVIL personified, and you have to be somewhat sentient to be THAT evil.
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  • Posted by coaldigger 5 months, 2 weeks ago
    Medieval knights did battle in the name of their king. In our system the king is the people and we send our "white knight" out to battle the evil "black" knight. Our problem is that we do not have a William Marshall. Instead, we have Donald Trump whos' significant virtue is that he can tolerate getting dirty rolling around in the mud with the pigs. If he wins our gain will be the lesser of the evils but we are in dire straits and are running out of time. Meanwhile capable but cowardly knights avoid the fray because of their fear, not of the enemy but of the mud.
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  • Posted by $ gharkness 5 months, 2 weeks ago
    To those who say "we have no right to judge," I always respond "We have not right NOT to judge." This understandably does not make me a favorite in my online "circles."
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    • Posted by 5 months, 2 weeks ago
      "One must never fail to pronounce moral judgment.

      Nothing can corrupt and disintegrate a culture or a man’s character as thoroughly as does the precept of moral agnosticism, the idea that one must never pass moral judgment on others, that one must be morally tolerant of anything, that the good consists of never distinguishing good from evil.

      It is obvious who profits and who loses by such a precept. It is not justice or equal treatment that you grant to men when you abstain equally from praising men’s virtues and from condemning men’s vices. When your impartial attitude declares, in effect, that neither the good nor the evil may expect anything from you—whom do you betray and whom do you encourage?

      But to pronounce moral judgment is an enormous responsibility. To be a judge, one must possess an unimpeachable character; one need not be omniscient or infallible, and it is not an issue of errors of knowledge; one needs an unbreached integrity, that is, the absence of any indulgence in conscious, willful evil. Just as a judge in a court of law may err, when the evidence is inconclusive, but may not evade the evidence available, nor accept bribes, nor allow any personal feeling, emotion, desire or fear to obstruct his mind’s judgment of the facts of reality—so every rational person must maintain an equally strict and solemn integrity in the courtroom within his own mind, where the responsibility is more awesome than in a public tribunal, because he, the judge, is the only one to know when he has been impeached."

      The Virtue of Selfishness “How Does One Lead a Rational Life in an Irrational Society,”
      The Virtue of Selfishness, 71
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      • Posted by $ gharkness 5 months, 2 weeks ago
        Perfect, of course. This very thing cost me a relationship with a very close (I thought) family member. I keep hoping that eventually she'll see what she has done, and I never pushed her to look at things "my" way. I simply refused to use the words she insisted on.

        Kind of a poor man's/woman's Jordan Peterson.
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