"Without altruism, the Stalins, Hitlers, Maos, Khomeinis, Castros, and Maduros would be powerless. Their calls to sacrifice for the nation, the race, the class, the tribe, or the faith would have been seen as morally obscene rather than morally correct."

~Craig Biddle https://twitter.com/ApollyonBlack/status/1135079187570667521
#Democrats accept every moral principle upon which equalitarian-collectivism (communism) depends for its "moral" justification. Those principles (e.g., intrinsic value of people, altruistic sacrifice for others as a moral ideal, coercion and compulsion to achieve good) are evil.
No, I think you subscribe to the same irrational principles used to justify every brutal, bloody, tyrannical, statist-altruist-collectivist political scheme since Marx spewed his evil ideas upon humanity. Principles which "justified" more than 100 million human deaths.
Correct. Another statist government blunder. The divergence between increased productivity and increase in real wages began when the government assumed full control over the economy by instituting a fiat-money regime. That's not capitalism, and Objectivists oppose(d) it.
Please demonstrate how they are false as generally true descriptive propositions.
Not sure what your point is, but those numbers are likely driven by sudden changes in childhood mortality due to medical advances, and better nutrition due to agricultural progress.
The fact that sensory organs evolved to selectively relay available information does not imply that the information that *is* relayed is somehow corrupted, unreliable, or non-veridical.

We see "visible" light because our star emits radiation most powerfully in that range.
Opps. That was not supposed to be posted to you.
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