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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (24493)	5/13/2009 10:29:26 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36918

>>Ayn Rand was a proponent of rational self-interest as opposed to irrational altruism.<< Ayn Rand thought she understood the fundamental nature of mankind. Which I might point out is stone cold nuts-lol!! Even today we know next to nothing about the human brain. Irrational altruism! Are you kidding? We existentialists believe that is how one determins ones validity as a human being. By how they behave. And we are not rodents which live deterministic lives. We have brains and can make logical and compassionate decisions. Just because we feel it is right and for no other reason whatsoever. I have always thought Any Rand was a sociopath so if I am right she had no idea what compassion was, just as a blind person has no idea what the color blue is. And other sociopaths would like her because they saw the same world. A world devoid of compassion.