Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Anniversary of 9/11

I posted the following on an Objectivist mailing list:

WHAT IS WEALTH?

Wealth is the means of the enhancement of human life. Because man is a being of both mind and body wealth can take either a mental or a physical form. On the mental level wealth can be a play or a novel. Or it can be a concerto or a song. In physical matter wealth is the means of assuring human survival and comfort. The sum total of wealth is the entire physical infrastructure we use to live ours lives. Wealth is also the entire body of knowledge of the universe that we live in.

As Human Life is the fundamental moral value. Wealth is the physical and spiritual means of living the Human Life. Therefore wealth is a moral value.

Wealth does not exist in a state of nature. The object must be conceived of by an individual. The physical components must be discovered and obtained by specific persons. The process and the tools for converting the basic materials to the finished object must be thought of by someone.

Wealth is the product of the specific thoughts and actions of specific people.

Wealth is the means of living and obtaining moral values in general but can also be used to destroy life. On this day twelve years ago four airliners, which were constructed to serve a human purpose and thus obtain real moral values, were hijacked and converted into weapons of murder.

WHY?

The members of the Muslim Terrorist group Al-Qaeda were pursuing a false set of moral values. They sought to destroy real lives, including their own, in order to obtain what I will politely describe as a permanent state of spiritual existence.* The doctrine of Islam promised entry into Paradise in exchange for the degrading and outright destruction of real Human Life.

WHY WAS ISLAM CREATED?

The fundamental purpose of the doctrine and practice of Islam was to enrich the false prophet Mohammed. Islam was the spiritual means through which Mohammed would benefit from the physical acts of robbery and murder. To obtain real wealth from those who actually created it without the valid exchange of values that is necessary in a real society.**

The false promises of Islam continue to provoke violence against the real people who live real lives. Because of this those who believe in and practice Islam must be isolated from human society.

The mailing list has a 400 word limit on posts, otherwise I would have mentioned modern art and Yoko Ono.

* What I usually describe as entry into Allah's eternal whorehouse to eternally rape a supply of eternal victims.

** The doctrine of Islam denies the validity of real laws because Mohammed would have been prosecuted and punished as a real criminal under them. And of course there's the child rape thing too.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?

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