Dr. Yaron Brook, the Executive Director of UIEGA in a press release said that "this is an infringement on our rights." He made this comment in response when Ayn Rand has formally weighed in against UIEGA.
In fact, Ayn Rand Institute is not a profit organization; mainly established to facilitate outreach educational and instructive programs, which in a way are the synergistic with the thinking of Ayn Rand who was a novelist-philosopher. She was very famous for her novels, which include The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, and the creator of the philosophy of Objectivism.
Quite similar to her novels, this objectivism celebrates man's rational self-interest, individual rights, and Laissez-Faire capitalism. The institute's argument considering its status to the UIGEA is probably parallel to the ideas and thoughts about the role of government.
In her book, The Virtue of Selfishness, she wrote, "Since the protection of individual rights is the only proper purpose of a government, it is the only proper subject of legislation: all laws must be based on individual rights and aimed at their protection."
The institute's press release said, "Why do supporters of the law deny individuals the freedom to spend their hard-earned money on gambling? Because, they say, people will bet and lose more than they can afford. In other words, individuals are inherently incapable of making rational decisions, and thus it is the government's job to protect us from ourselves. This vicious, paternalistic idea has no place in a free society."
While Rand's individual and personal ideas and opinions, as a matter of centric philosophy could be by far can be applicable and put and taken to many regulatory laws and issues. Its principles are particularly most important for the discussion of online poker.
In several behaviors, poker is the ideal and perfect objectivism gambling metaphor. But as a poker player, the motto should be to assure our own personal success, since it is one-way play for pleasure and also to earn some money.
Rand further felt that a person's "pursuit of his own rational self-interest and of his own happiness is the highest moral purpose of his life. |
