Tuesday, September 30, 2008

a.



"But reason is a property of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective mind."


I agree with this statement for the reason that everyone's brain works on a different level. Everyone has their own thoughts. Even though computers all work on one global brain, they're still only computers. The computer could never replace our brain, our brains change and learn through experience. A computer must be programmed. As we grown and change our brains and thoughts adapt to that. A computer could never do that.





c.





I believe that religon is a very important part of helping man's struggle to deal with reality. Look at everything around us. Almost all of this seems impossible. The way we grow, the animals, the plants, without a central power how could all of this exist? Living is an amazing thing, and religion gives people a sense of morality. It helps determine between right and wrong. So therefore I believe that religion helps the man's struggle to deal with reality and survive.





e.

I believe that there is no such thing as the "common good". What is good for one thing is not neccessarily good for another. The "common good" is a myth that people make up in order to get everyone else to go along with their ideas and plans. The "common good" is fictional. I agree with Ayn Rand's viewpoints on the common good. Every tyrant in the history of the world has raised their tyrancy based on the "common good", so if they support the "common good" then what is individuality?

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