I started to call her as I saw her, but you shouldnt speak unkindly of the dead. Instead, Id like to address the living men and women who share this view. Her premise is based upon the notion that a superior person or race possesses a greater right to the world and its contents. It is very much akin to the German concept of Lebensraum, which was a justification for the Third Reichs assault on Europa. Morally it is reprehensible and based upon a fallacy of reasoning. Of course the narcissism of its adherents prevents them from seeing that fallacy! Exceeding this cynical notion, allow me to express my disdain in terms that those Randians might understand. If we were to be visited by a species, with great technological advancements who determined to view our resources and then treated us as Europeans did indigenous peoples of other races; what superior argument could we then offer which would be better than that presented to the European conquerors by the non whites whom they exploited/enslaved/murdered? Watch the skies. The answer might go into parking orbit above our cities and our raised consciousnesses, insight and empathy will be worth less than a fart into a high wind!
Posted on: Wed, 28 May 2014 20:57:47 +0000