[lbo-talk] Sigtarp

[Matthias Wasser]

Rand and Nietzsche hated the same people (socialists, Christians, romantic
nationalists, women, "the masses," Kant, at least a few composers I'm sure)
but I don't think that implies any affinity in their philosophies. It's hard
to think of a point - in metaphysics, in metaethics, in epistemology - where
they agree; which is what you'd expect, given that Rand called her
philosophy Objectivism and Nietzsche was Nietzsche.

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:30 AM, Eubulides <paraconsistent at comcast.net>wrote:


> On 2/1/2010 8:19 PM, Mike Beggs wrote:
>
>  No-one thinks 'moral hazard' really has anything to do with morality,
>> though, it's just a figure of speech for the effect expectation of a
>> bailout has on attitudes to risk.
>>
>> Mike
>>
> ===================
>
> You don't live in the morality-soaked paradise of the US do you? :-)
>
> There is no society on earth as utterly, deeply, terrified of non-moral
> ways of thinking about large problems as those who live in the USA.
>

Yes, but what does that have to do with moral hazard? The whole concept was
dreamed up by law & econ types who thought they had stumbled upon a
valueless way of reasoning, or something close to it. You could call it
externalized risk and it would mean the same thing, just as you could rename
morale enthusiasm or whatever.