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Yeonmi, you should have come to Australia, there are many South Korean immigrants here who have built a wonderful life here. We are a multicultural country. Please visit us one day when you can. Keep up the great work and have a happy life.
Move to POLAND ,the last stronghold of values, christendom , people are normal there :) or to LITHUANIA
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I hate the arrogance of the "pro choice" side to make a decision from when life is "life" and "valuable". I rather have a conservative definition of life (being ULTRA careful and in doubt rather not kill a baby), than risking murder of a person which is 100% innocent, has done nothing wrong and is killed. This is ending up in eugenic thoughts pretty quickly. I am also tired of hearing this rape argument. Check the statistics 99% of abortions in the US are not done because of rape. This is mass murder and the fact that some people feel ok about it, speaks volumes about our modern ethics. Especially, when you learn that planned parenthood is selling baby parts for profits. This is so sick, one could think we are living in a satanic cult.
6:01 "Now, it is not always moral for a woman to have an abortion." This is where this video parts ways with Ayn Rand. Ayn Rand believed it is ALWAYS moral to act on an individual's rational self interest. Listing contrivances is unecessary. There is no requirement for special pleading for any exception to a principle. Abortion is always moral regardless of circumstance. It does not depend on receiving permission from a doctor who is personally concerned about risk factors.
Why would any thinking person care what some BITCHY dead Russian woman say about any important topic? Incidentally, OSI, you may now block this account of mine, as you have already done to another RU-vid account of mine. We all know that you cannot bear to hear the truth about your esteemed goddess, Mrs. O'Connor.
10 дней назад
Did you ever consider that the baby has rights, too? You people are killing innocent humans, by labelling them as "non-humans". On which basis? Because the body is not fully developed? This is not any better than eugenics. Murdering unborn babies while boldly thinking you are in the right. SICK. SICK. SICK.
Rand believed it should always be *legal,* not that it's always *moral.* As you correctly point out, Rand believed it's always moral to act on your rational self-interest. We don't need contrivances to think of cases where it wouldn't be in one's self-interest; a woman waiting longer than needed leaps to mind
Why would any thinking person care what some BITCHY dead Russian woman say about any important topic? Incidentally, OSI, you may now block this account of mine, as you have already done to two other RU-vid accounts of mine. We all know that you fools cannot bear to hear the truth about your esteemed goddess, Mrs. O'Connor.
@Fictionosophy_Angel According to Rand, politics is just an extension of ethics into a social context. If it is sometimes immoral then it is also sometimes illegal.
You are correct to begin with defining the terms. "Liberties" are required actions for a self-directed means of survival. "Rights" are permissions of action given by an authority. In secular political societies, Rights are established when legitimate governments promise to use force to protect an individual's liberties. Having Rights begs the question, "by whose authority?" If government protects liberty, then Rights begin at personhood (political acknologment usually through birth certificate). If God protects liberty, then Rights begin at conception. If in a state of anarchy, then Rights do not exist whatsoever. Since there is no evidence that a God will intervene to protect individual liberties, it is correct to say that only governments grant Rights; protections of individual liberty.
It is the anarchist position to argue that Rights pre-exist governments. Governments are established for the purpose of instituting Rights. Ayn Rand failed to make the distinction between liberties and rights, which is why Libertarians today see government as superfluous and unnecessary. Libertarians believe Rights are intrinsic to each individual by their own authority to weild force in the protection of their own liberty. This is Rand's definition of anarchy. Intrinsic Rights are the philosophical antecedent of "Might Makes Right." Protection of Individual liberties through the monopolization of force is the antecedent to Capitalism.
Dependent people have no rights, ok. There is no logic here that will stand up to a stiff breeze. Yes, your opinion here is very close to the view of advocates of slavery. Pathetic.
No, because slavery has no biological facts. Fetal growth requires food literally taken from the stomach of another person. Big difference. Your false equivalence is just an emotional argument with no grounds in reality.
It's always a smart move to leave something like the regressive left behind. It's some kind of extremism - and that's always bad. Unfortunately nowadays it seems that you've missed the exit to independent thinking. Instead you defend everything, the regressive right broadcasts even if it is the largest bullshit ever. That is sad.
philosophy: the love of wisdom, normally encapsulated within a formal academic discipline. Wisdom is the soundness of an action or decision with regard to the application of experience, knowledge, insight, and good judgment. Wisdom may also be described as the body of knowledge and principles that develops within a specified society or period. E.g. “The wisdom of the Tibetan lamas.” Unfortunately, in most cases in which this term is used, particularly outside India, it tacitly or implicitly refers to ideas and ideologies that are quite far-removed from genuine wisdom. For instance, the typical academic philosopher, especially in the Western tradition, is not a lover of actual wisdom, but a believer in, or at least a practitioner of, adharma, which is the ANTITHESIS of genuine wisdom. Many Western academic (so-called) “philosophers” are notorious for using laborious sophistry, abstruse semantics, gobbledygook, and pseudo-intellectual word-play, in an attempt to justify their blatantly-immoral ideologies and practices, and in many cases, fooling the ignorant layman into accepting the most horrendous crimes as not only normal and natural, but holy and righteous! An ideal philosopher, on the other hand, is one who is sufficiently intelligent to understand that morality is, of necessity, based on the law of non-violence (“ahiṃsā”, in Sanskrit), and sufficiently wise to live his or her life in such a harmless manner. Cf. “dharma”. One of the greatest misconceptions of modern times is the belief that philosophers (and psychologists, especially) are, effectively, the substitutes for the priesthood of old. It is perhaps understandable that this misconception has taken place, because the typical priest/monk/rabbi/mullah seems to be an uneducated buffoon compared with those highly-educated gentlemen who have attained doctorates in philosophy, psychology and psychiatry. However, as mentioned in more than a few places in this book, it is imperative to understand that only an infinitesimal percentage of all those who claim to be spiritual teachers are ACTUAL “brāhmaṇa” (as defined in Chapter 20). Therefore, the wisest philosophers of the present age are still those exceptionally rare members of the Holy Priesthood! At the very moment these words of mine are being typed on my laptop computer, there are probably hundreds of essay papers, as well as books and articles, being composed by professional philosophers and theologians, both within and without academia. None of these papers, and almost none of the papers written in the past, will have any noticeable impact on human society, at least not in the realm of morals and ethics, which is obviously the most vital component of civilization. And, as mentioned in a previous paragraph, since such “lovers-of-wisdom” are almost exclusively adharmic (irreligious and corrupt) it is indeed FORTUITOUS that this is the case. The only (so-called) philosophers who seem to have any perceptible influence in the public arena are “pop” or “armchair” philosophers, such as Mrs. Alisa “Alice” O’Connor (known more popularly by her pen name, Ayn Rand), almost definitely due to the fact that they have published well-liked books and/or promulgate their ideas in the mass media, especially on the World Wide Web.
The amount of hypocricy is unbearable. Shut the hell up. You make it sound as if Israel hasn't been attacking Palestinians since the 1940s. Western hypocricy has been compromised infront of the whole world.
Kiyah Willis is another one lost to the ARI war propaganda. The only rational ones are in the Atlas Society. It's like Objectivists turn into collectivists when it comes to foreign issues.
Same level of brainwashing happens to isreali kids, they are taught that they are hated because they are chosen, special. Talmud competitions for kids, i shit you not 🤣 evil stuff
How many civilians died in the Iraq war by the US? Why were they there? And Afghanistan? The Guy who did it was in another country so why was the Us there?
In North Korea, language has been suppressed, the words "love" and "I" have been erased, and history has been erased. This is exactly what the globalists are trying to do to the world now.
The system will never improve until we break the notion that, "Without public funded government schools, we'll have a society of idiots, it's a public good." The U.S. Dept. of Education was founded ten years AFTER putting men on the moon. How did mankind ever evolve from the Stone Age to the Industrial Revolution without government-mandated schooling and bureaucratic departments to oversee it?
I think Schwab was an under appreciated figure in his time period. Im prejudiced: Mrs Schwab and my great grandmother were half-sisters. He truly had a gift for leadership and problem solving. He lived his life unapologetically as you state, there is this misunderstanding about the end of his life. On the day of his death his holdings were of meager value, as were the holdings of many. When his estate was settled in the late 40’s his beneficiaries and heirs became very wealthy. They preferred privacy, and thus his legacy was not promoted. Later confusion with a discount stock broker complicates things.
I've listened to all of your podcasts (many more than once) and look forward to each new episode. I learn so much and am inspired to pursue and learn more about each hero (yes, the villains too!). Amazon should pay you a royalty for all of the books I've purchased as a result of your shows! You are both Hero's educating us on hero's... Thank you for doing these-- you are having a positive impact. I am now 70 years old and have been weight training since I was 16-- I live the body-mind philosophy-- feed both... I listen to the Hero Show during my workouts and take notes during my rest periods. Thanks...
Oh my pronouns grow up grow up.weak people who couldn’t grow up.. you couldn’t go through what this real woman went through. Your pathetic and weak. Go get your safe space and grow up.
Wait ... she is hoping North Korea becomes a China model rather than America?!! Hmmm ....Then What is she doing in America?! She should be in China working to make North Korea like China; besides everyone knows North Korea is puppet of China. Also, not sure how she got the money to go to Colombia University, How she has been given so many venues, how she was able to learn English and publish a book?!!!! It all sounds fishy to me!
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OjwXguQY52A.htmlsi=J78797KLiTYhUEL- ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_Dvg6ncE0d4.htmlsi=YCYHn8yo53Nn1xZE ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yAokbO7huE0.htmlsi=ARwweYrlEVLLtlOD She is an agent of Israeli and American intelligence to distort Islam ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Y3a6ZlLb_hE.htmlsi=PmPz0I_YR2eqO2DR
