The new, official timeline they released indicates that it's non-canon, or at most "loosely canon": http://www.konami.jp/mg25th/truth/ Note the descriptions where it says that MGS1 is the "third" game, MGS3 is the "fifth" game (meaning it goes in release date order), and MGS4 is the "sixth", while PW is the "seventh".…

Why does everybody seem to make the same mistakes when it comes to a Metal Gear timeline and lore? Portable Ops is now non-canon according to Kojima Productions. Big Boss never went into a coma in '72, that was a translation error on the English version of MGS1. And the S3 Plan wasn't to create a new Solid Snake, it…

There should be an adage similar to Godwin's Law for when people try to bring up Somalia as a libertarian paradise.

I myself have taken to using "anarcho-capitalism" or "voluntarism", but I've found that using "libertarianism" is often the quickest and easiest way to explain my position (and also to be dismissed by statists).

But yes, upper-case L Libertarians playing nice with conservatives have given the word a bad rap. As a true,…

Whenever I see someone describe libertarianism as "naive", I have to ask them, "And faith in government is not?"

If you're going to claim that liberty doesn't work, you first have to prove that government does. The burden of proof is on you.

You're right, nobody wants to ban guns. People want to take guns from citizens and give them to police and military. They want to give the government a monopoly on gun ownership. That is definitely not banning guns.

I think the violence is essential to displaying the horrifying truth to the utopia Infinite presents. It paints the disturbing disparity between the bright, happy city and the vile, monstrous reality perfectly.

Levine likes to site the first chestburster scene from Alien, with the crew eating lunch and chatting in a…

He automatically loses for making a straw man with the electricity going out thing. Electricity is not a communication medium. It is not the equatable.

And with his mobile phone example, the obvious answer is to get service with a company that has more reliable reception in your area. Actually, this example works…

Eh, they're just codes for golden keys. Randy Pitchford and Gearbox PR tweet these kinds of codes out all the time. So this is cool and appreciate, but it's not nearly as rare and special as some folks might think.

Force is immoral. I would never use force to save 100,000 while condemning 100. In such a scenario where force is the only option for action, it is logically preferable to choose inaction. You can disagree with logic in favor of a more emotional, immoral response, but it does not change the fact that it is, in the…

Your argument is still based on fallacious logic. What do your academics have to do with your individual position on the philosophy? It sounds like all your argument against it is: "These smart people think it sucks, so I do too" and "It's old, so it's irrelevant now".

But there you go, attributing a value to a human life. By saying that each life is as valuable as the next, you've already fallen to measuring them on a standard that is illogical because it isn't based on any sort of knowledge. It's just an blanket assumption.

Okay, but you're making an appeal to authority here. Simply because "academic philosophers" dismiss Objectivism does not mean that it's incorrect. Your argument is also highly susceptible to the tyranny of the majority.

Yes, you can't measure the value of a human being. That's my point. It is not within your power to claim that 100,000 lives are more important than 1000, or vice versa. It is unknowable, and therefore illogical and immoral to attempt to judge them for value. Life is somebody else's property, so don't ever violate…

It is illogical because it does not take into consideration the value of each of those 100 individuals. It's a case of the seen and unseen. The unseen affect of those people not having their needs met (in this scenario, I always kind of assume the "need" being discussed is life") is that they can no longer take part…

Shoot me some examples. I can bet that a lot of the things that initially seem "logical and evil" are actually not logical and just evil.

How so? Shoot me some examples. And look, I enjoy thoroughly enjoy postmodernism and existentialism as much as the next guy (Fun Fact: Rand said she would have called Objectivism "existentialism", but the name was already called "dibs" upon. She was forever grumpy about this, as she was about most things, and always…

Always good to help out a fellow human out of the goodness of my altruist heart! Makes God and my country and my king proud!

Individualism wasn't invented by Ayn Rand, she's just one of the philosophers who got the most popular with it.

The thing is, subjectivist morality falls apart because it basically isn't founded upon anything. I guess the best thing you could argue it's based on is democracy, but even that isn't very accurate, as a lot of the time it's the powerful minority who decides what the moral norms are.