Welcome to my blog. My name is Steve Giardina. I consider myself to be a student of the philosophy of Objectivism, and these are my many thoughts. Feel free to leave comments, as well as your opinions.
"In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title. Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours." Ayn Rand
7/4/2003
This is an amazing article.
Independence Day must henceforth be the primary day to demand a return to America’s original, fundamental principles. Within such an individual rights- respecting nation I have a rational self-interest in voluntarily financing the military, the police, and courts that uphold objective laws, with their purposes being to protect my rights from foreign and domestic initiators of physical force and from defrauders and violators of contracts. Government services such as roads, libraries, parks, post offices, for example, must all become privately owned and subject to the laws of supply and demand, i.e., laissez faire capitalism. Thereafter, I will voluntarily pay for services I need and be free from the government coercion that forces me to finance those that are useless to me. All Americans will be free of any legal duty to finance what others value and be free to voluntarily trade with (or give their property to) whomever and/or whatever they value.
Every individual’s life, liberty and property belong to themselves; no one has a moral claim on them. Our government must reestablish this philosophy. America is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.
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