I hate Ayn Rand but this frequently cited fact -- that she took social security payments -- is often cited to allegedly prove her hypocrisy. But her argument was, the government stole from her, so she was justified in recouping some of the stolen money by filling out the paperwork etc. Her logic makes sense to me given her ideas so I don't think it was hypocritical, even if wrong. Also more broadly, should outgroups steal from one another? The best argument I see in favor is they are dangerous outgroups, so harm them to protect you and yours. The best argument I see against is the more one interacts with someone (even to inflict damage), the more one (if one is goodhearted? prosocial?) starts to empathize with that individual and wants to help them recondition rather than continue to harm. Thoughts? To tie it into cypherpunks just use as examples warring factions/tribes in the hacktivism/transparency landscape.
-------- Original message --------From: juan <juan.g71@gmail.com> Date: 4/20/18 1:22 PM (GMT-08:00) To: cypherpunks@lists.cpunks.org Subject: Re: Juggalos Joining Libertarians, Mental Sovereignty vs Programming, Burning Miracles On Fri, 20 Apr 2018 12:51:11 -0700 Razer <g2s@riseup.net> wrote:
Juggalos Joining Libertarians... Good. This WILL destroy the racist fascist US entity called "Libertarians".
Just a reminder that Ayn Rand was a nasty little cunt racist who died on welfare.
the bit about welfare sounds bogus. Unless she spent all the copyright money on amphetamines? which seems kinda unlikely...
She left an inheritance and didn't die broke because she took SSI money (not retirement money... non-paycheck workers can, but typically don't, pay into the SS system... so yeah, welfare) and Medicare to pay for her medical bills, or she would have. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand Rr