Thomas Sowell macht eine nette Bemerkung darüber, was Anti-Krieg wirklich bedeutet:
Having overwhelming military force on your side, and letting your enemies know that you have the guts to use it, is being genuinely anti-war.
"Wir sind keine Konservativen - wir sind Radikale für den Kapitalismus. " Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Philosophin und Schriftstellerin, Verfasserin der Romane "Atlas Shrugged" und "The Fountainhead" - Dieser Blog bietet keine systematische Einführung in den Objektivismus. Dies ist nur möglich durch ein Studium der Quellen des Objektivismus.
Having overwhelming military force on your side, and letting your enemies know that you have the guts to use it, is being genuinely anti-war.
When you ban/silence/purge someone in this manner who has not themselves done anything wrong and wants to work with you, be your ally in spreading Objectivism and with whom you share a worldview and a philosophy, you cause further schisms and hard feelings and you limit your chances of working with them in the future or of them helping you. And you make bystanders and observers wonder about your sense of fairness and your judgment.
In my 44 years as an outspoken Objectivist and partisan in many disputes, sometimes my position has been the unpopular one. Yet there is one principle that has guided me to succeed in my personal life when so many other Objectivists have failed and to remain loyal to Ayn Rand's philosophy when others have disowned it.
That principle is: REALITY IS ALWAYS THE WINNING SIDE.
It's not WHO's right, but WHAT's right. It is not who said it, but whether it is TRUE. It is not who or how many people agree with you, but whether you are RIGHT.
If you don't really understand a matter well enough, don't take a side. If you are wrong, change course the minute you see your error. When you know you are right, fight like a tiger and never betray reality nor your own judgment.
Rational people can and do disagree about crucial matters, but REALITY IS ALWAYS THE WINNING SIDE.
Ein Mitglied fragte Bernstein: "Geht es bei euch immer so wild zu?" - Bernstein: "Nein, aber wir sind umstritten." - "Warum?" - "Wenn ich Präsident wäre, hätte ich schon längst Atombomben auf einige Länder geworfen!" Im Gespräch mit einem anderen Mitglied der LYM sagte Bernstein: "Ja, wir sollten Millionen von Moslems töten." - "Auch Milliarden?" - "Ja, auch Milliarden!" - "Wie wär's mit Billionen?" An diesem Punkt merkte Bernstein wohl, mit wem er da sprach und antwortete: "Ihr seid verrückt, und wißt ihr was? Wir sollten auch euch töten, wenn ihr uns im Wege steht!"
So where is the evidence that Republican religious politics could lead to theocracy? Seemingly the evidence is all around us.
A marriage is a public declaration to a society that you two are to be treated as one. And the state is properly involved in granting such a status because it is a - in significant part - a legal relationship. There is the marriage contract that you sign. And the state has every right - let me say, counter to the libertarians - to decide who should be able to sign this type of contract. I do not think for instance if a uncle and his two 12-year-old nieces come in and say "We want to get married," the state should say "Well contracts are private, here's a marriage license." Even if consenting adults - if two women and a man come in, I think the state has a perfect justification. Or if two men come in - I don't believe in gay marriage. I believe that it's proper - since this is a special state-sanctioned relationship - that some standards be applied in the granting of this type of license.
Der Prozess in der Grünen Zone in Bagdad war kein Sieg der Justiz, kein Triumph des Rechts über das Unrecht, sondern eher ein Spektakel. Mit westlichen rechtsstaatlichen Standards hatte das Verfahren kaum etwas zu tun. Besonders problematisch ist schließlich, dass das Gericht die Todesstrafe verhängte. Die Todesstrafe verstößt gegen das Recht auf Leben; dass sie nun in einem Verfahren verhängt wurde, das ganz offensichtlich unfair und nicht rechtsstaatlich war, ist nicht akzeptabel.