Stop Thinking Only About Ourselves! WTF?

[El Correcto]

I'm going to bed, I'll skip it...

Vonnegut would be horrified at Rand's conclusions.

On a side note, Rand lived the end of her life in the soft clutches of GOVERNMENT ASSISTED HEALTH CARE.

The irony.

You make her sound like a welfare case, she wasn’t. Good night my sweet bay stater.

 

[cosmo1]

Any Rand was one of my favorite authors growing up along with Kurt Vonnegut

There you go.

 

[El Correcto]

There you go.

Thanks.

 

[BrownArmy]

You make her sound like a welfare case, she wasn’t. Good night my sweet bay stater.

Wrong, she died penniless as a ward of the STATE.

Sad.

 

[El Correcto]

Wrong, she died penniless as a ward of the STATE.

Sad.

Wrong... don’t know why you want to paint her as a welfare leach. Maybe your bias?

 

[Jones]

Rand underwent surgery for lung cancer in 1974 after decades of heavy smoking.[97] In 1976, she retired from writing her newsletter and, despite her initial objections, she allowed social worker Evva Pryor, an employee of her attorney, to enroll her in Social Security and Medicare

 

[El Correcto]

Rand underwent surgery for lung cancer in 1974 after decades of heavy smoking.[97] In 1976, she retired from writing her newsletter and, despite her initial objections, she allowed social worker Evva Pryor, an employee of her attorney, to enroll her in Social Security and Medicare

You can talk non sense all you want, Rand was not a penniless welfare leach grasping for handouts. The lady left a million dollar inheritance and probably withdrew around 11,000 from a system that stole more from her.

 

[Jones]

An embryo has no rights. Rights do not pertain to a potential, only to an actual being. A child cannot acquire any rights until it is born. The living take precedence over the not-yet-living (or the unborn).
Abortion is a moral right—which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved; morally, nothing other than her wish in the matter is to be considered. Who can conceivably have the right to dictate to her what disposition she is to make of the functions of her own body?"

- Ayn Rand

 

[Old Man Jingles]

An embryo has no rights. Rights do not pertain to a potential, only to an actual being. A child cannot acquire any rights until it is born. The living take precedence over the not-yet-living (or the unborn).
Abortion is a moral right—which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved; morally, nothing other than her wish in the matter is to be considered. Who can conceivably have the right to dictate to her what disposition she is to make of the functions of her own body?"

- Ayn Rand

It could be argued that a 1 year old is still in the potential stage.
All living things are a potential until they can live without any assistance from their parents or others of it's species.

 

[El Correcto]

An embryo has no rights. Rights do not pertain to a potential, only to an actual being. A child cannot acquire any rights until it is born. The living take precedence over the not-yet-living (or the unborn).
Abortion is a moral right—which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved; morally, nothing other than her wish in the matter is to be considered. Who can conceivably have the right to dictate to her what disposition she is to make of the functions of her own body?"

- Ayn Rand

I don’t agree with every position Rand took.

I disagree with libertarians on a lot of social issues and foreign policy.

 

[El Correcto]

That being said libertarians at least have the right mind state to argue against on these issues, I don’t get why democrats have any say in this country. Libertarians should replace them.

 

[rickyb]

I don’t agree with every position Rand took.

I disagree with libertarians on a lot of social issues and foreign policy.

i dont agree with every position marx took either.

 

[El Correcto]

i dont agree with every position marx took either.

Which do your disagree with? This is news to me.

 

[BrownArmy]

That being said libertarians at least have the right mind state to argue against on these issues, I don’t get why democrats have any say in this country. Libertarians should replace them.

Lulz, and you wonder why there is such division in our country.

You think 'democrats' shouldn't have any 'say' in our country?

The equivalent statement would be that 'republicans' shouldn't have any say in our country.

Play nice.

 

[vantexan]

i dont agree with every position marx took either.

Groucho?

 

[Frankie's Friend]

It could be argued that a 1 year old is still in the potential stage.
All living things are a potential until they can live without any assistance from their parents or others of it's species.

Is that why you can go to federal prison for messing with eagles, their eggs (unborn, in the so called "potential stage" listed above), or even their nests?

They couldn't survive without any assistance from their parent(s) for a few days much less a year.

But yet they (and other birds) are federally protected.

So human beings are worth less?

What happened when the lawmakers became so open minded about the value of human lives?

Their brains fell out.

 

[bbsam]

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When I see a Beto yard sign or bumper sticker.

It is funny. That a liberal democrat who doesn’t hide being a liberal democrat but embraces it in a statewide election comes that close to being a senator from Texas...?

Laugh if you will, but that’s a big electoral count that could tilt into the blue column in coming presidential elections.

 

[bbsam]

It could be argued that a 1 year old is still in the potential stage.
All living things are a potential until they can live without any assistance from their parents or others of it's species.

That’s just stupid.

 

[bbsam]

That being said libertarians at least have the right mind state to argue against on these issues, I don’t get why democrats have any say in this country. Libertarians should replace them.

Because that’s what representative republics do!

 

[floridays]

I'm pretty sure it had more to do with women's rights than race

Exactly which right of a woman has Sen. Cruz proposed stripping?