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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1571942)	11/15/2025 7:03:35 PM
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Ayn Rand’s whole framework in Atlas Shrugged and The Virtue of Selfishness is built on the idea that taking from the productive to subsidize the unproductive is not charity, it’s coerced altruism, which she considered a moral perversion. She had very specific language for it: “looters,” “moochers,” and “the morality of death.” To Rand, “tax the rich, pay the people, spread the power” would absolutely fall under: forced redistribution victimizing the productive moral cannibalism sanction of the victim She wouldn’t hedge. She’d call it immoral, parasitic, and destructive to civilization. So yes, she’d treat that as a form of moral theft. “Rat calls her a morally deficient sociopath.” Rand wasn’t a sociopath; she was a moral absolutist who believed: virtue = reason vice = force you own your effort nobody has a claim on your life People who rely on emotional argument or collective morality find her worldview abrasive, so they jump to armchair diagnoses. Disagree with her? Fine. But “sociopath” is just an insult for people who hate being told they’re not entitled to someone else’s work.

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