Re: ESSAY: Steven Weinberg on Today's Utopias

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Jan 11 2000 - 13:35:40 MST


ExI Office wrote:
>
> At 07:23 PM 1/10/00 -0600, Eliezer wrote:
>
> >The strong exist to serve the weak, and to the abyss with Ayn Rand.
> >--
>
> Just how do you justify that moral claim?

I don't; I simply attempt to live by it.

> I say: No one exists to serve anyone. At the same time, everyone is free to
> choose to serve themselves and others or both at the same time (the latter
> usually works best, at least in a market economy).

I have no reason to object to that.

> Max

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