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From: lippard@his-phoenix-multics.arpa
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Subject: Re: Was Ayn Rand a Libertarian?
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Date: Wed, 3-Sep-86 01:03:06 EDT
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> From: Eyal mozes <eyal%wisdom.bitnet@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 86 17:15:29 -0200

> Your two "axioms" are not just not self-evident; they're completely
> false. Suicide, for example, involves "minding one's own business";
> but, if you're familiar with Ayn Rand's writings, you can 
> demonstrate objectively that it IS evil. Selling and using drugs 
> involves "non-coercively interacting with another person", but, 
> again, you can demonstrate objectively that it is evil.

I don't believe that it can be "objectively demonstrated" that suicide
and drug use are evil.  Could you provide such a demonstration, or
give me a pointer to the place in Randroid writings that does so?

Jim (Lippard at MULTICS.MIT.EDU)
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