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Originally posted by Kuan
This Ayn Rand stuff is so boring. All emotion, no substance. Call it whatever you want, but it's well known that for every event x there exists a sufficient condition y which implies x. Rand called this economic force selfishness and labeled it as a virtue.
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Boring? Perhaps. No substance? Hardly. It is demonstrated every day by billions of people. It has nothing to do with Rand, and I'm not making any judgements or arguments one way or another about "selfishness as a virtue", I'm just pointing out that if you are truly honest with yourself, then you know that this is how it works. No matter how charitable an act, or how selfless you try to convince yourself that you are by performing it, you STILL feel good about it.
Mike