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edthecynic said:Of course YOU brought up Rand's mentor and guiding light HITLER before me, I merely replied to YOUR HITLER post..
In response to Ravi. And with positive proof that Rand is fundamentally philosophically opposed to Nazism (and all totalitarian regimes)
The funniest thing about this thread is the fact that actual conservatives think Rand is an idiot, too.
But the OP would never admit that.
Why don't you start a thread debating the merits of Adolph Hitler? I bet you'll get similar derision.
However, none of the above makes your Godwin's Law meets chemical predestination post any less ignorant. Wrong is still wrong.
Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a mans genetic lineagethe notion that a mans intellectual and characterological traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry. Which means, in practice, that a man is to be judged, not by his own character and actions, but by the characters and actions of a collective of ancestors.
Racism claims that the content of a mans mind (not his cognitive apparatus, but its content) is inherited; that a mans convictions, values and character are determined before he is born, by physical factors beyond his control. This is the cavemans version of the doctrine of innate ideasor of inherited knowledgewhich has been thoroughly refuted by philosophy and science. Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes. It is a barnyard or stock-farm version of collectivism, appropriate to a mentality that differentiates between various breeds of animals, but not between animals and men.
Like every form of determinism, racism invalidates the specific attribute which distinguishes man from all other living species: his rational faculty. Racism negates two aspects of mans life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination.
Racism,
The Virtue of Selfishness, 126