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Re:Aetna CEO Threatened Obamacare Pullout If Feds Opposed Hu... by Randgalt on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @06:50PM (#12309071)
"You can't divine rights out of some fundamental logic" - of course you can. This is the role of philosophy.
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Re:Aetna CEO Threatened Obamacare Pullout If Feds Opposed Hu... by lutorm on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @07:12PM (#12309221)
Good luck with that.
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Re:Aetna CEO Threatened Obamacare Pullout If Feds Opposed Hu... by Randgalt on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @07:30PM (#12309335)
https://www.amazon.com/Objectivism-Philosophy-Ayn-Rand-Libra...
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Re:Aetna CEO Threatened Obamacare Pullout If Feds Opposed Hu... by lutorm on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @10:31PM (#12310054)
Maybe I should have been clearer: Just because you say it's derivable "from logic" doesn't mean it is. No logic system can do anything without axioms, and the adoption of those axioms is an arbitrary choice.
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Re:Aetna CEO Threatened Obamacare Pullout If Feds Opposed Hu... by Randgalt on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @11:34PM (#12310268)
Axioms are not arbitrary - they simply are. An axiom is a recognition of the nature of reality.
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