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You have the right to be warm when the sun shines and to drink when it rains. Everything else, you have to work for.
As far as who should vote I say almost no one should have that right. It was once noted by a Roman Emperor that the more people he could give the vote to the more likely he could be emperor for life and do whatever he liked to the Romans, civil rights would be damned by the populace who would give up their rights to be entertained by the state, have their food and property stolen by the state and when some of it was returned to them they would celebrate and praise those who ruled them. I understand the original constitutional law that only those who had property could vote, in other words those who had something to lose if the wrong character become a lawmaker. However watching those who are worth billions get on board with the socialists I don't know that was a good qualifier either. The only vote that really counts is my ability to say no. When Obamacare is voted into being and I am approached if I can say no and have that respected then I don't care what is authorized by 'law'. If I can't say no then I am a dead man because the majority will always vote to steal my property, my authority over my own life and anything else they can get their hands on without killing me for a dead slave is not a productive slave and has nothing to steal.
That being said, however, that time is long since past. Now unions do more to impede both business and worker alike than can be tolerated in today's age. While I do not support the notion of outlawing unions because it violates the First Amendment right to Association, I do support the outlawing of public labor unions, meaning the unionization of any governmental worker. Such form a fundamental conflict of interest.
This doesn't matter, though, unless you're just taking a survey. Do you have some thoughts about how they interact or relate to Ayn Rand's books?
Those are the parts I support. When I say "feminism" that's what I mean, not seeking gov't handouts.
To me it stands for treating people as individuals, not as a group. There are so many kinds of feminism, three waves of it and disagreement within the schools of thought, so you can't be sure what someone means by the word without context. I'm a feminist in that sense of respecting people's rights without regard to gender.
My UU congregation has had their sign up for the past two years. I have not followed all the details. If you're up for a sermon, here is our minister speaking issues related to BLM.
https://youtu.be/yvrGMVPYAZA?t=52m20s
No worries. I am atheist/humanist. The congregation is probably 3/4 atheist and 1/4 couples from different faith backgrounds.
Since Frank Wright designed the building in the 40s, I like to think it was the inspiration of the creedless church that Roark approved of and designed a building for in Fountainhead.
Once at a different UU congregation, someone commented to member "well that frankly sounds like something Ayn Rand would say." The speaker said he would take that as a complement because he was a fan of Ayn Rand. It wasn't a hostile exchange, but people clearly have their own opinions different opinions.
http://www.uua.org/beliefs/what-we-be...
http://www.uua.org/beliefs/what-we-be...
“Our seventh Principle, respect for the interdependent web of all existence, is a glorious statement. Yet we make a profound mistake when we limit it to merely an environmental idea. It is so much more. It is our response to the great dangers of both individualism and oppression. It is our solution to the seeming conflict between the individual and the group.
“Our seventh Principle may be our Unitarian Universalist way of coming to fully embrace something greater than ourselves. The interdependent web—expressed as the spirit of life, the ground of all being, the oneness of all existence, the community-forming power, the process of life, the creative force, even God—can help us develop that social understanding of ourselves that we and our culture so desperately need. It is a source of meaning to which we can dedicate our lives.”
Those who find something important in Ayn Rand they like should read Ayn Rand and understand the philosophy that it makes it possible. It isn't this.
The Principles are intended to be symmetric, so the 7th Principle about the interdependent web of existence is opposite the 1st Principlee, the inherent worth and dignity of the individual. They are centered around the 4th, a free and responsible search for truth an meaning.
People who find something important in Ayn Rand will not find all the same things at UU.
People who are attracted to Ayn Rand's sense of life and ideas will not find them at all in conventional "liberal" emoting and doctrine of an eclectic religion with its faith, hodge podge of "sacred texts", "six sources" and "seven principles" any more than in their equivalents in Scientology.