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September 27th 2005, 10:09 PM
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Daniel, there are clowns. 
Yes, and my rational judgement says your reasoning is flawed.

Metaphysics... although there is an objective reality, subjective reality also exists and can affect objective reality. So subjective reality must be included in any objective view of reality as a whole.

Epistemology... reason is not the only way that humans acquire knowledge, intuition is as well. There is no reasoning for the actions that some people take during crisis situations. It happens too fast, and intuition is what is used.

Human nature... now it almost looks as if Objectivism realizes that subjective reality exists. Except that now it starts ignoring the objective reality that stuff like economic factors, genetics, and etc can and do affect how well one can exercise free will (subjective reality). If one is born with a genetic defect, all the free will in the world is not going to change those genes.

Ethics... I can get behind this one better. If taken the right way, this could actually be a good thing. Enlightened self-interest. But it taken another way, it is every man for himself with no integration into the whole. And considering the short-sightedness of the average person, the latter is a much more likely scenario.

Also, someone might have a purpose to kill someone, and use reason to justify it, and gain self-esteem from a job well done afterwards, as self esteem can be gained from many different things, some of which may be detrimental to the being.

Politics... there are plenty of other means of controlling others that are far worse than physical force. It also ignores simple generosity, from which the open source community would not exist.

Aesthetics... not much to argue here, except that to say that art is an expression of the artist's fundamental view of existence ignores that it might be an experience rather than a view. Or perhaps an exploration rather than a fundamental. But fairly cool overall.