There are some pretty salient features here about why using a base-12 number system would be more efficient, but as noted, the change would be horrendous to navigate. Most of us that were raised on base-10 would spend our lives thinking in base-10 and have to do a lot of conversions all the time. Th...

All entitlement programs in laissez-faire capitalism would be phased out. It wouldn't happen overnight. Cost would be determined by the market and upon what type of education, etc. Do be very careful with that loaded word "entitlement." What Objectivists seem to miss, while calling these ...

Reasoning is not enough. How often across history have reasonable ideas turned out to be false? Reality has a way of making even the greatest ideas seem quite stupid in hindsight, after implementation. More accurately, reasoning upon bad assumptions (bad axioms underlying the logico-axiomatic syste...

See.

I think the numbers you're asking me to do are going to be impossible to quantify and dependent upon someone's entire paradigm of thought. To wit, you are asking me if it's possible that the CEO is contributing 115% more in a day than his typical worker does in a year (for more fun, btw, run these n...

Another peril of Objectivism: the monumental amount of wasted time spent arguing with Objectivists who cannot see the perils of Objectivism because they view the situation from the inside rather than from a relatively unbiased perspective.

Interbane, specifically Objectivists have an oversimplified definition of coercion (usu. limited only to physical force or any actions they don't like when performed by the government--even though that's a mistake as in a democratic society, government action, however much we might disagree with it,...

Pardon my lack of precision there. You have redefined the concepts of rights according to an argument that proceeded from a strawman. I already explained that Rand's view concerning the role of government in the rights of people is a strawman of the real way in which those rights come into existence...

For future reference, so long as you see government as a "them" instead of as a willful extension of "us," then you'll never, ever understand any of this.

You might as well have linked to the bible. Immediately we see her three categories are strawmen, and then we later see that her entire construction relies upon the notion of free will, which is not established (rendering it at the least question begging) but more entirely an illusion. What then? He...