Originally Posted by jimv
Well it would have been helpful if you had identified yourself as an Objectivist first. If you did, and I missed it, then I apologize. You are naturally entitled to your views but I personally reject objectivism and wouldn't have bothered you with a response had I known the situation. I have had too many protracted 'discussions' with objectivist to know that we would have a very difficult time finding any common ground.
And the "open ear" problem strikes again.
Well to be fair, I wouldn't hole myself into an entirely objectivist label because I believe that there is an underlying theme to all philosophies and as I mentioned before, the problem is how we communicate these ideas to other people. Language creates roadblocks - and often specific terms force people to become defensive or shutdown because of what they naturally associate with those terms - which you just perfectly demonstrated. my use of the word objectivist made you turn off. Here I was agreeing with you and defining my words so you would see that, and you failed to see it because you were not able to move past the "language" barrier.
Then again I also believe that objectivism can also be reconciled with relativism since i dont live in the dualistic world that most people do around me. So I am a strange one... I think its important to explore all ways of looking at life - and be wary of living too inside your personal bubble of beliefs. How do you know that pecan pie is your favorite if you only judge the other types from the pictures on the box instead of taking time to do a taste test?