DD: If "rant" means a bold speech or essay that is made based on a deeply-held conviction made after much careful observation and deliberation on some topic then, yes, I have ranted here.”
Unfortunately, you’ve displayed nothing resembling “careful observation and deliberation” on any topic here. Projectile diatribes outlining subjective/ignorant takes on a subject is not being “careful.” What you have displayed a remarkable talent for intellectual dishonesty, however. Your ability to employ emotional defensive mechanisms as a substitute for “argument” ought to be an embarrassment to you. Instead, you seem proud. Odd.
Being that this thread was opened by you, appropriately, in the “Dissent” forum, it would be reasonable for us to expect an expert interpretation of “dissent” from you. Dissent is not disagreement for the sake of disagreement. Dissent is a reasoned argument born from accepted principles held by all parties partaking in the discussion. Rationally, dissent is not used as a vehicle to acquire enemies. However, you have managed to successfully use this important tool for seeking the truth as such a vehicle.
Feel better? Accomplish what you set out to?
For a dissenting opinion to have any weight in any given issue, those sparring on the issue must agree at some level of the issue, even as far back as it’s base is a good enough place to begin. You apparently don’t agree on any level, thus, you don’t “dissent,” you simply dismiss out of hand any attempt to intellectually understand. Members of the Supreme Court dissent on majority opinion. Atheists dismiss majority and minority opinion from Christians, and vice versa.
There is a huge difference, but I don’t expect you to grasp it.
Here the issue is Objectivism as a whole. Rather than begin your disagreement (dissent) in a place we could all understand (Ethics, assuming you understand and agree with her Metaphysics and Epistemology), you blanket the whole with subjective, irrelevant bits of psychobabble, which is actually a dismissal, not a dissent.
Objectivists strive to untangle the mess popular “intellectuals” make of important ideas dealing with life. You enjoy the mess, Daniel. Untangling it would destroy your motives, which is to slander ideas you’ve shown toe-curling ignorance of.
Your mirror is faded to the point of distorting what you think you see. You lack the passion you hoped to show us because overwhelming ignorance is smothering it.
Instead of being proud, try on some humiliation. You’ve earned it.
Teresa
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