Feelings being the issue

Cynicism is the tragedy of our age. It is what prevents people from accepting that when given rights, people don't just murder and steal from each other.

People just want trump to be evil to they get cognitive dissonance and serious biases

the market is the ultimate embodiment of objectivism.

its individuals trading value for value.

i'm not saying people don't have the capacity for reason

I'm saying that the overwhelming majority of people will gladly throw reason aside in order to be in a place where they feel like they belong (the pack)

because they are told to.

no, because its SAFE

No it's inate

"no subjective opinions" is an unrealistic goal

thats not the goal of objectivism...

Humans will naturally prefer something more dogmatic and mad if it gets them Into the in group

its asserting that you have a mind and a right to use it.

no they won't! Are you denying that America exists?

People chose to be irresponsible and ignore or wayleigh truth for the animal desire for acceptance

More often than not

Anyways

America was the embodiment of the objectivist vision.

yes and as i said, the majority of people will rather be just a middle person in the group than a shining person that asserts individuality

to a large extent

America the embodiment of objectivist vision, please

it wasn't perfect of course

America is just as much subjective as the Soviet Union, the only difference is that they had the luck of siding with Capitalism

notice how I said **was**

and notice how i compared it to the soviet union, i'm talking through all time

you are still only talking about the cold war

i'm talking before that too, the whole point of the civil war was that, where the confederates wanted less rules from the North, less taxes

They asserted themselves as independents, and the Union crushed them for it

in the 19th century, individual rights were paramount, and do you know why? because individual rights were given by god. So when the 20th century comes and atheism rises, the justification for rights, the philosophy, evaporates.

that is where America is today.

thats bullshit, god didn't give people individual rights, the founding fathers did

that is why they are perfectly willing to just throw them away for a few more social programs or whatever.

their justification was god

no it wasn't

in fact it was the opposite

then why do creationists always say "god given rights"?

they wanted a land where anyone could be FREE, regardless of their beliefs, be it spiritual or political

yes I know what they wanted

because creationists are retards that think god created existance

but they couldn't morally justify it through the philosophy of Altruism, so they had to just leave it as god.

If god gave them individual rights, he sure did a nice job of protecting them for the west

I told you, the justification of god has gone. That is why the enlightenment has gone.