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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1103854)12/10/2018 11:07:58 AM
From: James Seagrove4 Recommendations

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Tenchusatsu

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There is a fundamental moral difference between a man who sees his self-interest in production and a man who sees it in robbery. The evil of a robber does not lie in the fact that he pursues his own interests, but in what he regards as to his own interest; not in the fact that he pursues his values, but in what he chose to value; not in the fact that he wants to live, but in the fact that he wants to live on a subhuman level (see “The Objectivist Ethics”).

If it is true that what I mean by “selfishness” is not what is meant conventionally, then this is one of the worst indictments of altruism: it means that altruism permits no conceptof a self-respecting, self-supporting man—a man who supports his life by his own effort and neither sacrifices himself nor others. It means that altruism permits no view of men except as sacrificial animals and profiteers-on-sacrifice, as victims and parasites—that it permits no concept of a benevolent co-existence among men—that it permits no concept of justice.



“Introduction,”
The Virtue of Selfishness



To: Brumar89 who wrote (1103854)12/10/2018 2:15:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1572775
 
Brumar,
Of course, immoral people revered her.
Surprise surprise, you're now adopting the liberal view of Ayn Rand.

No shades of grey, no nuance, just plain demagoguery.

Tenchusatsu