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From: rb@hpcuhb.HP.COM (Robert Brooks)
Newsgroups: alt.individualism
Subject: Re: KC; libertarians and abortion
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Date: 22 Mar 88 22:07:19 GMT
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/ hpcuhb:alt.individualism / rb@hpcuhb.HP.COM (Robert Brooks) /  9:27 pm  Mar 21, 1988 /
>Unfortunately individualism, at least in the guide of Objectivism,
>replaces the right of the tribe/group to kill with the power of the
>individual.  Rand states that man (her term) only has a right to exist
>as a reasoning being, and then gives the example by having Dagny shoot
>the guard because he refused to make a rational choice.  (And that
>Dagny would have regretted shooting an animal, but felt no remorse
>over shooting this human.)  The consistent structure of Objectivism
>allows the individual to be accusor, judge, and executor.  If you say
>that human life is only diGtrent from other animal life by its power
>of reason then you get to decide whether a human is reasoning and
>decide if it gets to live. 
...
>-- 
>David Hawkins       {pacbell,hplabs,ucbvax}!well!dhawk

Please provide a reference for this.  I don't recall reading anything
about a guard being shot in _Atlas_Shrugged_, and what you are saying
isn't at all consistent with my understanding of Objectivism.

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