Henry Imler November 25th, 2007

As screwed up as some of Rand’s philosophic ideas are, David Bernstein points out a redeeming quality of her work:

First, she indirectly persuaded me that caring about the
success of strangers on sports teams that happen to carry the name of
my city or school is a waste of time. This freed up thousands of hours
for other endeavors more directly related to my own life. (I’m not an
evangelist about this; if you enjoy rooting for sports teams, and think
the opportunity costs are worth the enjoyment you get out of it, more
power to you.)

That about sums up my thoughts on it.

With that said - GO HEAT and MU BASKETBALL TIGERS! (don’t you just
love contradictions? everyone wants to get rid of them, but they are
everywhere - actually, my opportunity costs of following the Heat and
select college basketball teams are worth the enjoyment I get out of
them, so I don’t really think there is a contradiction here.)

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