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Re: choices

Flash wrote, describing views he's not (I think) endorsing:
Thinking about moral choices is strictly for professors of philosophy; the
common man should not think much less _choose_, he should simply obey
categorical imperatives.

Yeah, that's the attitude Objectivism opposes. And it's self-contradictory:
he *should* obey? Then that's a choice. If one thinks people can't help but
obey, then no issue of morality even arises. There's no morality for
non-thinking, non-choosing, pack-following organisms, like dogs and sheep.





Harry Binswanger
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