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Re:Ayn Rand Institute accepts $1m PPP loan from The State by thephyber on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @07:00PM (#23765190)
Even Ayn Rand gladly accepted social security in her later years.[1] That doesn't stop her or her followers from "being against" government welfare.

However, it does show that they are willing to bend against their principles. In the words of a great movie "Principles only mean something when you stick to them when it's inconvenient." [2]

[1] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ayn-rand-social-security/

[2] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0208874/quotes/qt0396978

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Re:Ayn Rand Institute accepts $1m PPP loan from The State by beaner on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @07:15PM (#23765332)
As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, it is morally consistent to take something that you paid for, while putting forth an argument that you should not have been made by others to pay for it in the first place.
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Re:Ayn Rand Institute accepts $1m PPP loan from The State by thephyber on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @07:28PM (#23765426)
I read that comment as well, but you are choosing to argue philosophy in a different frame of reference by arguing "morally consistent" versus my "principles".
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Re:Ayn Rand Institute accepts $1m PPP loan from The State by beaner on Saturday July 11, 2020 @06:45PM (#23806817)
To put it another way: it would have been against her principles to not take something she was made to pay for.
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Re:Ayn Rand Institute accepts $1m PPP loan from The State by sudosysgen on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @08:04PM (#23765677)
Except that in this case the Ayn Rand institute, having such low profits and cash reserves, isn't taking something they paid for. They are taking much more than they paid for, even though they didn't have to.

If you follow the philosophy that as long as you do not have the power to change your material circumstances that you should follow your interests, your philosophy is no more useful than nihilism.

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