Tornado Alley (PROG)

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hap, Actually i had 2nd thoughts on my Christian comment re you and ended up searching your posts way back. Some freaky
Objectivist-type positions i felt, but connecting you to that giant superstition was my mistake. I'll cop to that blunder.

Don't want to get into it here and now, as i've never been attracted to labels and also have never felt i understood the different schools enough to say i was one or the other as you have committed to that selfish beast Rand, but whenever i've been asked to choose one i felt closer to it's always been

Some interpret the imperative to define oneself as meaning that anyone can wish to be anything. However, an existentialist philosopher would say such a wish constitutes an inauthentic existence – what Sartre would call "bad faith". Instead, the phrase should be taken to say that people are defined only insofar as they act and that they are responsible for their actions. Someone who acts cruelly towards other people is, by that act, defined as a cruel person. Such persons are themselves responsible for their new identity (cruel persons). This is opposed to their genes, or human nature, bearing the blame.

As Sartre said in his lecture Existentialism is a Humanism .. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism_Is_a_Humanism : "man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world—and defines himself afterwards". The more positive, therapeutic aspect of this is also implied: a person can choose to act in a different way, and to be a good person instead of a cruel person.[30]

Existentialism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism

That one feels much more rational, reasonable and comfortable than your Rand's Objectivism. .