There won't be mystical force but you would be punished if you did. Just because you can does not make it a right.
By saying man can do anything he wants you are saying that nothing is evil.
A right is a moral principle defining and sanctioning a man's freedom of action in a social context. The concept of right pertains only to action - the freedom of action; freedom from physical compulsion, coercion, or interference by other men.
A right cannot be violated except by physical force. One man cannot deprive another of his life, nor enslave him, nor forbid him to pursue his happiness, except by using force against him. Whenever a man is made to act without his own free, personal, individual, voluntary consent - his right has been violated.
Therefore, a clear-cut division between the rights of one man and those of another. It is an objective division- not subject to differences in opinion, nor to majority decions, nor to the arbitrary decree of society. No man has the right to initiate the use of physical force against another man.
I did not accuse you of calling it a cult, I put that in there to show that Objectivists today don't follow her blindly as a cult would.
That was one of the greatest things of Rand and Objectivism, total freedom to be whoever you wanted as long as you did not violate the rights of others. She hated porn but defended it. She stayed true to ideals of freedom.
There is no such thing as a right to a job, there is the right to pursue a job but there is no guarantee to one. Hiring descrimination is perfectly the right of business owner; if they don't want to hire a certain group of people: athiests, gays, christians, whites, blacks, hispanics, etc. it is their right to do so. Of course white (white males), christians are not allowed to use this.
A recent example of white people who earned their promotion yet were held up by the city because no blacks passed was heard in the Supreme Court today. Firefighters from New Haven (?) took a test for possible promotions only whites passed the test but the city fearing a discrimination lawsuit decided not to promote/give raise to anyone. That is racism, of course people who believe in affirmitive action and hiring minorities over a white individual (the individual being the smallest minority) are racist, sexist, etc themselves for their decision was not based on their qualities, hard work, but on a feature of theirs.
Morality is white and black, gray is a cop out for those who choose to be black but not wholly so they don't seem as bad. Genocide being the whitest white was more of a joke rather than a personal belief just to clarify even if not needed.
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