4 August 2021
Having read a little bit of Rene Descartes and David Hume and Robert Heinlein by the time I was about fourteen, I decided I should call myself an empiricist, insofar as “atheist” and “anarchist” were probably still fightin’ words around that time, and I’ve always been terrified of confrontation. Since then, of course, I’ve become comfortable with more radical claims.
I made the mistake once of suggesting to an ardent Randroid that I could probably be considered an objectivist, even if not an orthodox Randian.
He set me straight immediately. There was no such thing as “probably an objectivist.” So I said that if an objectivist were locked in Schroedinger’s Box with a radioactive particle and a death-switch then that would certainly constitute a “probable objectivist.”
Randroids also don’t like quantum mechanical jokes.
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