Y'know, Ayn Rand is right - up until she talks about ethics and morals

Taverner

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Fri Oct-02-09 11:39 AM
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Y'know, Ayn Rand is right - up until she talks about ethics and morals

Then she's dead dead wrong

To see altruism as a perversion of self-interest is trying to find justification for moral depravity. For putting yourself at the center of the universe, rather than the communitarian needs of others.

But when she talks about objective reality? She's absolutely right there. There is no 'there' besides here.

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MrScorpio

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Fri Oct-02-09 03:34 PM
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1. She was also an advocate of rough sex

So, I guess there really is some good with the bad

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Taverner

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Fri Oct-02-09 05:34 PM
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2. Although with her, that extended into liking killers

http://michaelprescott.net/hickman.htm

She had a thing for William Hickman, who was forger, an armed robber, a child kidnapper, and a multiple murderer.

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