Ayn Rand, Life and Soldiering
BackAccording to the ethical philosophy of Ayn Rand, it is wrong to sacrifice oneself for others.
In this video, Paul McKeever answers a question put to him in an e-mail from a viewer: "Is it wrong to be a soldier or a police officer?"
Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: June 8, 2007 at 9:15 am
Author: PaulMcKeever
Length: 00:08:17
Rating: 3.88
Views: 2459
Tags: Ayn Rand Objectivism sacrifice defence
Video Comments:
Mrmikeshelton (December 27, 2008 at 10:22 am)
Live free or die! says it all. If your choice is to live as a slave or die, any moral, rational man would choose to die.
Mrmikeshelton (December 27, 2008 at 10:21 am)
As Patton said, "Nobody ever won a war by dying for his country, he did it by making the other sorry bastard die for his."
87176246 (December 25, 2008 at 12:02 am)
Great video!
EdwardWLynn (December 18, 2008 at 8:39 pm)
Well, I think a reasonable person would say you can judge for yourself. Are Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the federal reserve and the mortgage encouraging laws that got us in such a mess features of capitalism or things that capitalism had to work around? What do you think?
jnycnuk (November 29, 2008 at 5:19 pm)
you have got to be kidding. the wealthy do not go to war and neither do their children. it is the working class and the poor that do the fighting. the rest sit back and continue to get richer from their investments because war creates more wealth for those in and near the boardrooms.
Mrmikeshelton (December 27, 2008 at 10:19 am)
actually war is bad for business. It may create short term wealth, but wealth is a long term value. War is all about destruction, which is detrimental to wealth, which thrives on production. War destroys markets, destroys resources, kills workers, and kills consumers.
jnycnuk (December 27, 2008 at 12:19 pm)
mrm: war is primarily destructive to the people and the nations that it is exported to. where the military devices are manufactured, there is wealth.
eventide925 (November 27, 2008 at 8:17 pm)
I am a Vet, I believe that the point you are making is that we fight due to enlightened self interest?
PaulMcKeever (December 8, 2008 at 7:25 am)
Moral soldiers do, yes.
thomasschenkel82 (November 21, 2008 at 7:01 pm)
what a dumbass.