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Saturday, November 27, 2010 - 4:56pmSanction this postReply
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Pretty good, Ed! I might have done it a bit differently myself, but not bad.

I think I would have stressed that a morality which allows the sacrifice of others to self allows the sacrifice of self to others, and that allowing the sacrifice of self to others is not selfish, but self-sacrificial.

In other words, the virtue of selfishness simply says that man is not an object of sacrifice -- that he should, in Rand's words, "live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others, nor sacrificing others to himself." To which the respondent would reply, "Gee, I never thought of it that way!" :-)



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Saturday, November 27, 2010 - 6:57pmSanction this postReply
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Thanks, Bill.

Good point about the reciprocity of "dog-eat-dog-eat-dog-again."

I tried to search for this video on YouTube and it didn't come up in the first page or last page of the search results. I'd like to try to get some exposure for it, or make it easy (possible) to find. I used 2 tag words: selfishness and altruism, but even searching for my tag words failed to bring up my video. Perhaps search results only show up for videos which have been watched by several people ...

Ed

(Edited by Ed Thompson on 11/27, 6:58pm)


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Sunday, November 28, 2010 - 4:40pmSanction this postReply
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Ed -

You may like to know this little video is getting passed around on Facebook. :)


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Monday, November 29, 2010 - 6:01amSanction this postReply
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Thanks, Tres.

Ed


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Monday, November 29, 2010 - 9:29amSanction this postReply
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Ed, I like it!



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Monday, November 29, 2010 - 2:26pmSanction this postReply
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Thanks, Mike! 

Ed


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Monday, December 13, 2010 - 12:22amSanction this postReply
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Just made another one, but am having trouble publishing it to YouTube now.

:-/

Anyway, here is a link to it over at xtranormal.com ...

"What to do":
http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/8052393


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Tuesday, December 14, 2010 - 12:50amSanction this postReply
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Actually, that one (above) was my rough draft. Here is the finalized version:

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/8061343/

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Saturday, December 18, 2010 - 12:50amSanction this postReply
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The second one finally got published to YouTube:

What to do and how

Ed


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