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re: Hugh Freeze Quote Ayn Rand????
Posted on 2/5/13 at 12:02 pm to shakermaker
Posted on 2/5/13 at 12:02 pm to shakermaker
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That's what happen when you spend your life rationalizing a system that is designed to increase your own happiness and treats empathy and compassion as immoral.
You whiffed again.
Rand didn't think there was a thing wrong with compassion or empathy but that forced compassion and empathy(i.e. confiscation of wealth under threat of fine or imprisonment from those who earned it) is neither just or moral. It's no different than a garden variety armed robber holding up a liquor store demanding the money in the register. It's just theft on a grander scale and given to the moochers among us and called 'their fair share'.
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Posted on 2/5/13 at 12:46 pm to MonroeTiger80
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You whiffed again.
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Rand didn't think there was a thing wrong with compassion or empathy but that forced compassion and empathy(i.e. confiscation of wealth under threat of fine or imprisonment from those who earned it) is neither just or moral. It's no different than a garden variety armed robber holding up a liquor store demanding the money in the register. It's just theft on a grander scale and given to the moochers among us and called 'their fair share'.
From the Any Rand Institute, "Introducing Objectivism":
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Man—every man—is an end in himself, not the means to the ends of others. He must exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself. The pursuit of his own rational self-interest and of his own happiness is the highest moral purpose of his life.
Where does compassion and empathy fit in objectivism? If the pursuit of your own happiness is the highest moral purpose in life, where does that leave the pursuit of happiness for others?
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