Ayn Rand Fan Debates ‘Objectivism’ With Sam

A rational actor who cares about THEMSELVES would limit their use of antibiotics to protect THEMSELVES, and those they care about, from future harm. And TAXES can be voluntary, if you FREELY CHOOSE to be part of a nation or other governmental organization in which YOU give the power to tax. The Nation of the USA was developed upon the value of the INDIVIDUAL, what RAND loved was that the USA is a government of the PEOPLE who freely choose to be part of the nation and, freely choose to pay taxes, unlike Stalin's Russia where she was afflicted by Authoritarian (military totalitarian) Collectivism. The RATIONAL SELF INTEREST is that we can all freely choose to join a Union, a State, or a Country. Objectivists choose to work, to freely trade with others, and produce, not because they are cohersed, but because they are ENLIGHTENED, and recognized that all INDIVIDUALS are limited and NEED others to survive. Dan didn't think things through, but neither did Sam. If you monopolize land, which is against RAND's ideals, then I choose to monopolize Oxygen, and therefore I will trade you Oxygen for Land. Else we can justly put some things off limits to ownership, like the commodities necessary for survival. As RAND would say, denying an individual the resources for survival is violence. You need not earn money, you need only CHOOSE to be self-sufficient. Robinson Crusoe had FRIDAY, a person who freely chose to be a slave. Libertarians are not Objectivists. Objectivism is an internally consistent rational philosophy, and in creating it Ayn Ran created the first SECULAR ETHICS. This is the first step in defeating the irrational ethics of religions. The MR audience will never achieve the goal of a collectivist union as long as it allows for the irrational religious people to be part of the collective, for they always divide to conquer. Any Rand laid down the foundation for a Rational Ethics, but was never allowed to move on toward ENLIGHTENED rational self-interest, because everyone attacked her out of fear that rational objectivism would defeat their own schemes for power and control. Too bad she only lived through WWII until 1984, she never saw the outcome of 'free market' capitalism, and couldn't critique the failures, yet if you read her fictions, she not only predicted Neoliberal Corporate Democrats, she also predicted #tRump (see Mr Turner from Atlas Shrugged). Rational, Self-Interested people can freely choose to become part of a collective, if it is in their own best interest. Enlightened Rational Self-Interested people already have.