re: Hugh Freeze Quote Ayn Rand????

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I can be an Objectivist pursuing my own self-interest and happiness and be running a home for abused women or orphaned children, can I not? Or do YOU think there is a finite way to define happiness or self-interest. Happiness has endless manifestations in Rand's philosophy as long as they're self-defined.

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Yeah you could, but you would be a really bad Objectivist. Man exists for his own sake, remember? Now if charity makes you happy, we're exiting Objectivism, because a true objectivist would see not value in wasting time on trifle things such helping those in need. It's wasted energy not supporting your existence.

I don't have the finite way to define happiness, but do I think that a framework which defaults to just pleasing yourself and yourself only is a fancy way of rationalizing being as arse.