Originally Posted by Clippo

Tito wrote:-


Outdated possibly yes –but criticism of her views were expressed while she was alive.
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You are falsely assuming that ‘logical philosophy’ is immutably correct.

As for :-


What a load of W & P. Full of theistic epistemology of which the logical foundation has been shown to be highly flawed.

I prefer a different philosophical prospective :-

Humanity evolved the ability to use tools, including fire, and which enabled it to survive in ecological niches where almost physiologically identical species (e.g. other great apes), could not. A classic example of adaptive evolution. However, as with all newly evolved species, they can become dependent on the factor(s) which gave them that evolutionary advantage in the first place. Particularly so if the species doesn’t evolve further to become independent of those initial factors i.e. stagnate & die. When that dependency is discovered to be threatening to the species survival in any way, (for example by lack of availability, or 'overgrazing' aka over use of resources), the probable outcome is distinctly un-advantageous in evolutionary terms. Cf the Dodo effect.
So it is with fire in humanity’s case. It has been discovered that the over-use of fire now threatens the survival of the species – so therefore humanity, having the intelligence to understand all of the implications of using tools (cf, spears / guns / nuclear rockets) – needs now to ‘adapt’ (further), to survive.
Humanity and evolutionary successors will always be dependent on additional 'energy' sources, but we supposedly have the intelligence to realise that (well some of us have).

Originally Posted by Ayn Rand

"Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good."