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| Description I'm a corporate/transactional lawyer in a relatively big firm in Wilmington, Delaware, USA. I'm fascinated by both the craftsmanship of law and the big-picture questions of where law comes from, what makes a law a good law, what effects law has on life, etc.
I didn't become a lawyer until I was in my 30s. Before that, I had most of the low-paying jobs that liberal-arts majors who aren't academics tend to have. (My undergraduate degree was in classics, and my master's was in history.)
Although I've known about Ayn Rand at least since college (in the late '70s - early '80s), I did not read anything by her until 2005, when I was intrigued by some articles I came across celebrating the 100th anniversary of her birth. I tried The Fountainhead first -- I was impressed by the ideas, but (honestly) I hated the writing. A few months later, after someone told me that Atlas Shrugged is better than Fountainhead, I decided to give Atlas a try. Once I had read that, I was hooked.
Philosophically, I am still learning about Objectivism, by reading Rand's non-fiction and books by others about her and her ideas. Many of the principles of Objectivism are persuasive to me, but at the same time I am persuaded by many of the principles of wealth-maximizing utilitarianism. For example, one issue that remains open for me is whether I would find Rand's ideas persuasive if it could be shown that some competing ideas resulted in greater wealth.
[Please note: "Jay Pastore" is not my real name. I'm using a pseudonym on SOLOHQ because the site appears to be transparent to search engines.]
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