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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (663376)	7/22/2012 10:31:26 AM
From: SilentZ	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577893

>Wrong. Ayn Rand is against exploiting others to pursue your own happiness. >Rational selfishness, in Rand's view, is in a sense a "win-win" philosophy. You do give a shit about other people in that you recognize that, via interdependence, both you and everyone else can achieve a measure of self-gain. That is not the way I've read any of her writing (or her biography) at all... And even if it were, it doesn't work in practice whatsoever because every person is different, has access to different information and has different talents, and the vast majority don't want to, or don't have the opportunity to be one of Rand's Masters of the Universe. They just try to get by day to day because that's all they can do. And in Rand's model, those people are to be exploited because they're really not seen to have much self-agency and they just don't "get it." And eventually those people collectively end up trying to exploit the special minority, and that special minority has to detach themselves from society to keep from getting exploited back. And that does feel like the modern conservative philosophy in a nutshell. The rich, who get richer and richer and richer, are actually the victims. -Z