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The tutorial will replace a current system that Hankins described as a "grab bag of topics [that] don't have a rational relationship with each other."
A gossip column titled "The Lucky Bag" gave thelocations of parties and names of people with astore of cigarettes which were rational at thetime.
Sounds rational, but it isn't. Whereas heading off the next bomber is a chancy business at best, we could, if we chose, adjust highway death downward with nearly the precision of a volume-control knob. We could better enforce speed limits, say, or close all bars at dusk. Implicitly...
So McNamara has finally gone public with lessons he learned from the Vietnam War: don't underestimate the forces of nationalism, and don't ask the military to achieve more than weapons can deliver. Could another lesson, which went unmentioned, be the danger of self-deception by leaders who choose...
The claim that Objectivism is cruel, hence immoral, is a complete perversion of Rand's philosophy. It is taking Nietzsche's notion of the noble as the Ubermensch and imposing this notion on Objectivism. Rand's version of rational egoism is distinct from and vehemently opposed to Nietzsche's understanding...