April 28, 2003CONTESTUPDATE to yesterday's entry: Can anyone think of an appropriate Ayn Rand-esque response to the question, "Why did the chicken cross the road?" A modest prize (for real) to the person who comes up with the best response (funniest and/or most appropriate). I will be the judge, although I will strongly consider "votes" from fellow bloggers. You can either enter this mini-contest via the comments, or email me at mscdavid AT hotmail.com. No fine print; just do your best and cross your fingers. Which reminds me...I picked up "The Ideas of Ayn Rand" (by Robert Merrill) the other day...very interesting, and not too "heavy." Nice, simple-to-digest analysis of her writing. Posted at April 28, 2003 08:34 PMCOMMENTS!
"It is only rational that, when presented with the road, the chicken would cross should it so desire. Chickens cannot be ruled." Posted by: Jeff at April 28, 2003 09:00 PMTo get to the other line. Posted by: Erica at April 29, 2003 02:13 AMThere is no empirical evidence that the chicken crossed the road. Posted by: Venomous Kate at April 29, 2003 01:08 PMThe chicken crossed the road to escape the mediocrity of the drones. Posted by: Babs at April 29, 2003 02:42 PMBecause lower animals, unlike man, have no choice but to act for their own benefit and crossing the road was necessitated by the facts of reality, that is, that which benefits chicken's life qua chicken. Posted by: Don Watkins at May 1, 2003 02:52 PM
The chicken had a rendezvous with destiny that not even a road could keep her from. Posted by: Sgt Hook at May 6, 2003 02:10 PMThe chicken's self-respect demanded that it cross the road rather than be subject to the whims of the non-road-crossing chickens. Posted by: Roger Ritter at May 6, 2003 04:40 PMThe Road exists, obviously the
"The question cannot be answered without first understanding whether the chicken has been informed by the Objectivist perspective or not. If the chicken were a truly rational creature, then it would have crossed for entirely rational reasons arrived at through informed and logical discourse. Otherwise it did so for the same foolishly emotional reasons that guide so many of the world's slaves to irrationality. To answer this question, we must first understand the chicken's philosophical development."
Posted by: Dean Esmay at May 6, 2003 08:53 PM
+1 Sgt Hook Posted by: LittleTree at May 7, 2003 09:18 AMChickens can't think. So asking why it did something is irrelevent. Posted by: sama at May 7, 2003 10:56 AMObjectively, the only reason this question would have a legitimate point would be if the chicken had crossed to the other side. If it had not, the question of the chicken and the road itself would be irrelevant and hence never asked. Posted by: DrTuba at May 13, 2003 06:33 AMThe chicken was ofcourse duped by the committers of mental suicide into blindly accepting that crossing the road was it's duty to society. That it had no right to exist for it's own purpose.It had no right to it's own code of values. The collectivists Atilla's and altruistic witch-doctor mystics had doomed all chickens to a life of mindless road-crossing and convinced them that they were not worthy of asking "By what right!, On whose terms? For the benefit of whom?" Posted by: kyle ainsworth at September 15, 2003 09:30 AMvery nicely done Posted by: home loans at February 23, 2004 07:15 AMsoma Posted by: soma at March 1, 2004 08:23 PMPost a comment
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