tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6345577.post2273279682909151329..comments2024-03-28T09:53:43.900-04:00Comments on The Hurting: The Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Short Fiction (2015)Tegan O'Neilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14815842488966694944noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6345577.post-16536470659217203262015-04-15T18:59:51.636-04:002015-04-15T18:59:51.636-04:00The thing about a=a ("the identity principle&...The thing about a=a ("the identity principle") is that, literally, nothing substantive follows from it, and certainly no moral principles. To get anything moral from it, you need to add various moral and maybe metaphysical assumptions, but then they're doing all the work in the argument, not the identity principle.<br /><br />Using it to argue for a sub-Nietzschean individualism is preposterous. It's like trying to argue for political socialism on the basis that 1+1=2 (you put two things together and get something completely different, which is greater than each one individually! Therefore Marx, QED). The only reason Randians and their epigones treat a=a differently is that a=a is less familiar a principle than 1+1=2 and thus has a kind of superstitious and fetishistic power.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6345577.post-19791239127806014242015-04-14T08:57:59.579-04:002015-04-14T08:57:59.579-04:00GOOGLE RON PAUL!GOOGLE RON PAUL!Jack Feerickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06957899718721006732noreply@blogger.com