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Making a small Galt's Gulch right here where I am... Those words have come to my life just in the right time. I will start working on that. Thank you, Galtgulcher.

It is precisely becasue we know that humans have these violent instincts that we want a government that is strong enough to punish the initiation of force and bring justice, but weak enough to initiate force against its own citizens. This is a very delicate balance. Both anarchists on one extreme, and socialdemocrats on the other, claim this ...

You've presented a very good choice. To build a refuge for liberty. In the same way that America was founded by people seeking freedom and prosperity, modern free men could do the same. I am thinking, specifically, in temporary secession. Imagine a state, say Texas, whose citizens embrace freedom and secede from a country that is becoming ...

Thanks for yor response, Greg. I guess I did not understand what you meant by saying ''Objectivism IS American because it was BORN in this nation'' putting BORN in capital lettes. Do you mean that, other than its American origin,  Objectivism is rather universal? If that is is what you mean, I understand your point. Being American is more about ...

I am going to be perhaps too simplistic about this, but when I meet people who claim to believe in a sort of impersonal God who/which exerts no direct intervention in our lives, I ask: If you cannot talk to your God If you will never ask God for input or advice for any action, for any decision you take in your life If you will never do anything ...

Imagine we are living in year 2150. Objectivism has won the minds of the people all over the world. Country after country, even in Africa, the Muslim World and Latin America, citizens have achieved an unprecedented level of freedom and prosperity. Science and technology have brought high standards of life for most of the people. ''Poverty'' ...

One concern about ''going green'' is that it opens the door for the government telling us what to do and how to do it. This is a very valid concern, of course. Let us remember, however, that Ayn Rand was fine with the idea of having a strong army protecting the US against the Soviets (by the time of the Cold War) and having health authorities ...

I think that if Howard Roark had discovered that some specific building technology or process was giving health problems to others and to himself, he would have stopped doing it, right away. And he would have stopped doing it even if it represented a loss of money or fame. Objectivist ethics is not about pursuing money or fame, but values.  ...

Thank you very much for your answer, galtsgulcher. Indeed, some physicians become investigators and innovators. However, not all can or will be investigators. The vast majority still spend their time as clinicians, meaning listening to patients, talking to them, touching them, checking whether they are feeling better, and taking their physical ...

Hi everybody. I am a Mexican 43 old physician who is new to Objectivism. I am reading eagerly Ayn Rand's wonderful books. I must tell I first got to know Ayn Rand work through Rothbard, Friedman and Nozick Reading The Fountainhead, I suddendly asked myself: How would Ayn Rand describe the character of Howard Roark had he been a physican rather ...