Sunday, July 13, 2008

Should drunk driving be illegal?

A Primer on Logic
While reading at Lewrockwell.com, I recently came across a great article from a fellow Coloradoan. A Primer on Logic, was written as a defense to some of Mark's earlier posts about drunk driving. Mark shares some of the email that he received, much of which was less than uplifting. If you find yourself trying to reason with people who are constantly making emotional appeals instead of arguments based on logic, then the article will be a breath of fresh air for you. This will hold true especially for anyone who has had to deal with a MADD mother.

 

"Perhaps your grip on reality is not quite as firm as you might have hoped" - Todd Connelly


"They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin

Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment. -Learned Hand, jurist (1872-1961)

What does all of this do to the best minds among the students? Most of them endure their college years with the teeth-clenched determination of serving out a jail sentence. The psychological scars they acquire in the process are incalculable. But they struggle as best they can to preserve their capacity to think, sensing dimly that the essence of the torture is an assault on their mind. And what they feel toward their school ranges from mistrust to resentment to contempt to hatred – intertwined with a sense of exhaustion and excruciating boredom.

--Ayn Rand Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal