Cruz's Road To Hell Paved With The Bad Intentions
"Who should win? Anyone who favors individual rights across the board, and on principle, because of the natural and objective human requirement to think and be free. In other words, rights come neither from God nor the government. Rights are a basic requirement of a human being. Without rights, there is no economic growth, no survival, no self-responsibility, no freedom to rise or fall as one’s own person in life.
When I think of freedom and rights, I think of skyscrapers, computer technology, life-saving medicine, the joy to read and think as you please, to be spiritual (religious or not) as you define it without any threat of force from others, and all the pleasure and comforts brought about by the intellectual and personal freedom permitted to exist, in those exceedingly rare periods of human history where human beings are left largely free."
When I think of freedom and rights, I think of skyscrapers, computer technology, life-saving medicine, the joy to read and think as you please, to be spiritual (religious or not) as you define it without any threat of force from others, and all the pleasure and comforts brought about by the intellectual and personal freedom permitted to exist, in those exceedingly rare periods of human history where human beings are left largely free."
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But I think it applies to, as far as I know, all current possible Republican candidates for President, not just Cruz. None is even close to being an Objectivist (there is such a wide field that I admit to not having looked in depth at all possibles. If I'm wrong on that, let me know.)
After Cruz announced I did a quick surf and sure enough, "pro-life". Also true of Walker and a couple of others I knew were possible candidates. I didn't check Rand Paul because hey, he's libertarian right? Wrong. As pointed out in another thread and in another comment in this thread. That was a disappointment, but then his father has the same position.
As of now, my position is it's still early, although I can safely rule Cruz out, is the a candidate out there I'm missing remotely close to having principled views?
While I understand the opposition to such a notion here on this website and in the overall Objectivist philosophy, I cannot understand the repulsion toward it.
I'll try to explain, even though I'm certain the rational thinking would already see what I'm about to say: The idea that individual rights (the freedom mentioned the in the quite) originate from God was a brilliant. Placing rights above the manifestation/implementation of human beings means that human being have NO AUTHORITY to adjust/hinder/ restrict said rights. Essentially, provided people maintain respect for the possibility that there may indeed be more to life than what we see-hear-touch-smell, it declaws the despot and tyrant by removing the bulk of his/her authority despite those who may have elected him.
I would think those here, even if God were a fallacy, would see the necessity to place our rights beyond the reach of tyrants and the overzealous.
As a Conservative, Cruz is on my watch list, as is Allen West, and Ben Carson.
My 2 bits.
"If we are not sovereign over our own lives, there’s no basis for making the claim that we are free people. If we don’t own our own lives, it arguably makes more rational sense to hand over our freedom to technocrats in the government than to ministers at the church. Religious conservatives like Ted Cruz, the late Jerry Falwell and many others insist, “You don’t own your life. Your life belongs to God. Therefore, we should get rid of Obama and all the progressives because they defy God, particularly with their homosexuals and abortions, and that’s the reason to be against Obama.”
The road to hell, it’s often claimed, is paved with good intentions. Actually, that’s not it. The road to hell is paved with wrong intentions."
Cruz is not an Objectivist in even the slightest meaning of the word. I still think he's playing rabbit for someone yet to announce in return for something to come.