At the end of every webcast, we have fun with a set of totally impromptu and unscripted set of "Rapid Fire Questions." Here, you can review the still-pending Rapid Fire Questions, as well as submit your own.
Submit Your Question
Please submit one question per text box – no more, no less. You're limited to 200 characters. Don't incude any links or HTML. If you have a more complex question, please submit it to the regular question queue. We might edit your question for clarity before posting it.
Questions in the Queue
- Is the the race between Obama and Romney comparable between a hypothetical one between Toohey and Thompson?
- Would you watch a survival show that pitted socialists and libertarians against each other? How big a group would be necessarily to show a difference in their ideas?
- Would someone with super sensitive but unaided hearing have greater leniency in privacy violations?
- If someone who did something unforgivable incurred brain damage that both made them forget what they did and changed their character, would they be liable for their past actions?
- What would be a good way to represent rational morality in video games?
- Cloth diapers or throw-away diapers – does it matter?
- Should the independent creator of a technology be barred from using or producing it due to an existing patent? Should it matter if the independent inventor lives in a different state or country?
- Who is the wealthiest Objectivist you know?
- Is part of the reason there are no more fast wars because "Blitz Krieg" gave them a bad reputation?
- How can a prostitute remove consent without breaking her contract?
- Given that I want to immigrate to the US in the future, how much more should I care about immigration policy than other individual rights issues?
- When should it be ok for a teenage (or pre-teen) girl to get her ears pierced?
- Should college athletes be paid? Doesn't the current system exploit them?
- Are parents overprotective of their kids these days? Or given how much worse the culture is compared to 20 years ago, are things actually more dangerous for kids?
- In choosing between similar jobs, how should one trade off competing factors such as better salary vs. worse location, etc?
- What sports do you enjoy watching and why?
- Why did you choose philosophy over programming?
- Is it wrong to give your pet to a shelter if you're moving to a new apartment that doesn't permit pets?
- Why do people differ so much in their taste in movies?
- When did you first read Ayn Rand?
- Don't Americans have the right and the obligation to limit immigration to protect our political values from corruption?
- Why do you think that so many Christians of every generation believe that the Rapture will happen in their lifetimes?
- Don't we need some external authority to determine what's right and what's wrong?
- What does it mean to be selfish versus selfless?
- If someone requests that you remove your shoes in their house, but you have terribly stinky feet, what should you do?
- Should a person considering strategic default consider the government's role in creating the crisis?
- Should a person rely on local health inspection signs, such as the A, B, C system that some cities use?
- What do you think of rewrites of religious Christmas carols to make them secular, perhaps extolling reason and egoism?
- Is it wrong to take apart a device that you've bought just to understand it if the licensing agreement forbids that?
- What is the role of a proper government in regards to the unlicensed spectrum?
- What are the consequences of tribal ethnic prejudice and xenophobia?
