(Leonid)He means that he can parrot few senseless phrases like " I make baseless decisions, which are really the free choices." without even to have a clue of understanding of their contradictory nature, and then insult any person who dares to disagree with him.

I think I did more than parrot a few senseless phrases, although they may be senseless to a parrot, and Leonid. Here is the text from two different posts where I explained what I meant by “baseless choice.”:

When you are facing several paths all worn equally the same, logic will not tell you which one to follow. When you are in the middle of an open field with no paths and no landmarks, you must simply make a baseless choice. No amount of logic or reasoning will help you. And, there are situations in life which are analogous to these. Usually they are the most important decisions, like which occupation should you pursue, in what subject should you major, should you marry now or later. Sometimes, you can narrow the choice, but sometimes, the paths are equally the same, and logic doesn't reach.

Logic didn't help me when I decided to go back to Germany after I first completed college. I could have stayed in the States. I was sort of forced to come back to the States when my job in Germany disappeared, but I could also have stayed there and gotten another job. Camus' stranger shot the Arab but couldn't explain why. Alice fell down the hole and walked though the door to Objectivist Land. It wasn't logic which forced her to do that. Sometimes, stuff just happens.

This should be enough for a prima facie case that logic doesn't reach everywhere. It's been made several times on this site. If these guys keep claiming that logic reaches everywhere, make them refute this case and make their own.

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Sometimes, one option precludes the others. One may be faced with being a doctor or a lawyer and only have the time and resources for one. People do face real dilemmas.

Would you simply pick, for your first option, without using reason, using a flip of the coin? See, logic doesn't tell you which option to choose first.

I often go for walks in a nature preserve with several paths. Sometimes I get lost. I have to decide if I should keep following the path I'm on or turn around and try to go back. By going back, however, I could be going much further than I would if the trial leads right to where I want to go. I usually end up continuing on the path and trying to use my instincts to go in the right direction. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. Fortunately, I have always found my way back eventually. Just think, though, if you were lost in the everglades or in a dessert where there are no landmarks, what would you do?

Elvis wanted to make some serious movies and probably would have been happier if he had a challenge. However, the Colonel explained to him, very logically, how much time and effort those serious movies would take, and he is still making lots of money with the low quality movies he was churning out. He could make several of them in the time it took to make West Side Story. So, Elvis subjugated himself to the logical path. He did not flourish. Perhaps he would not have gotten fat and killed himself with drugs if he had taken the less logical path.

I had a chance, with Trade Act Readjustment Allowance, to go back to college for two years. I could have chosen to go after a masters in philosophy and try to get a job teaching philosophy in a community college somewhere. However, I went after another undergraduate major in English and got teaching certification at the secondary level. I'm using that now to sub in high schools as I keep trying to get hired as a regular teacher. My plan is to make lots of money by being a teacher and then get my graduate degree in philosophy and become a philosophy teacher. I took the logical path, but I'm still just a substitute teacher. Sometimes I wish I would have gone for the masters in philosophy first.

Bis bald,

Nick