Leonard Peikoff
Leonard Peikoff
Leonard Sylvan Peikoff is a Canadian-American philosopher. A former professor of philosophy, he was designated by the philosopher Ayn Rand as heir to her estate. He is an author, a leading advocate of Objectivism, and the founder of the Ayn Rand Institute. For several years, he hosted a nationally syndicated radio talk show...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth15 October 1933
CountryCanada
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If you grasp what totalitarianism is, you would never talk about the rights of the father. In that kind of society, he can only watch his son die. You say he needs a father; he needs a life first.
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Now if you ask me, in conclusion, "Well, what, then should properly be done?" Obviously war, but I mean in regard to this issue I would say: Any way possible permission should be refused and if they go ahead and build it, the government should bomb it out of existence, evacuating it first, with no compensation to any of the property owners involved in this monstrosity.
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The worse the coming future, the more it should motivate its opponents.
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Now, the United States' response, the western response to this is a continuation of the appeasement that was started back in the '50s with Eisenhower when Iran seized western oil companies. The Americans, the British, and the Israelis, as I remember, launched an attack to try to reclaim it and - or at least the British and the Israelis did and Eisenhower vetoed it.