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Politics : Evolution

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To: Brumar89 who wrote (5398)5/21/2010 6:10:57 PM
From: Solon  Read Replies (2) of 69300
 
“there is no reason a freethinker should ever be self-sacrificing.

You finally burbled something that wasn’t intended to come out of your ass! Congratulations!

Yes. If a freethinker sacrifices anything it is an act of wonderful self respect and honest value--100% selfishness. As Ayn said, you can’t get more virtuous or loving than that.

Everything a decent, humane, rational and (truly) compassionate person does is for selfish reasons. Otherwise they would be mooching beggars of both intellect and spirit--of no value to the world. They might as well join a band of marauding religious beggars and go about all day in filth and squalor like obscene animals looking at the moon and wondering wondering wondering...
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