Soggy in NOLA
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What a dumbass.... first off, define "selfishness" in the context used. Then come back and we'll talk.
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Yeah so explain them to me oh smart one.
Tell me how selfishness was not concidered a virtue by a woman who wrote a fucking Book titiled "the Virtue of Selfishness"?
Because man from his very inception has been a pack animal.
Preservation of the pack is preservation of the individual.
You only need to see the results of a human held away from other human contact to see how deep the connection is to our very exsistance.
When you place self over the "greater good" for the pack then you desend into a self perpetuating cycle of individual survival over the pack survival. You can let the pack starve to prevent your own demise but then you end up yanking your own pud and going insane.
GET IT you fucking selfish bitch?
HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Yeah and where in your little atrophied brain did you pull htat out of my post?
See those guys yessterday defending ripping off their customers?
Those are the Heros Ayn Rand tried to convince you were Gods.
Hows that Randy Heroy thing working out for you?
I'm going to engage in a bit of charity in an attempt to pierce the pack animal fugue of TM's thought processes.
TM,
Selfishness and being a member of a community are not mutually exclusive. Your own definition of morality is full of contradictions. The implication of your defense of a pack is that it benefits the individual to be part of one - you are justifying it with Selfish Self Interest.Why would an adult member forgo food to feed the young under your philosophy? The child begging for food it could not obtain its self was jsut tyring to fool you remember??
Selfish, Rational People understand their relationships and interdependence with other people. They respect those relationships and do not cheat, force, coerce, or harm others. It's not in their Selfish Self Interest to do so. Please give me an example of a person in history who preformed this philosophy to your predicted end?
The people who preach that you must sacrifice for others are the ones who are trying to fool you. They want to take what you sacrifice for their own benefit. So Jesus was trying to fool the world, Gandi too?
*helpfully and hoping these words don't have too many syllables for TM to grok*
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See those guys yessterday defending ripping off their customers?
Those are the Heros Ayn Rand tried to convince you were Gods.
Hows that Randy Heroy thing working out for you?
Ripping off their customers, huh? Fortunately your thread went off on the Rand tangent.
But, back to your original allegation. You show a distinct lack of understanding
See those guys yessterday defending ripping off their customers?
Those are the Heros Ayn Rand tried to convince you were Gods.
Hows that Randy Heroy thing working out for you?
Ripping off their customers, huh? Fortunately your thread went off on the Rand tangent.
But, back to your original allegation. You show a distinct lack of understanding of the difference between an investment adviser and a market-maker. And ditto for fiduciary as well. Don't feel bad though as you're no worse off than many of yesterday's inquisitors.
Why would an adult member forgo food to feed the young under your philosophy? The child begging for food it could not obtain its self was jsut tyring to fool you remember??
Please give me an example of a person in history who preformed this philosophy to your predicted end?
So Jesus was trying to fool the world, Gandi too?
Randian hero - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As a conception of the ideal man, the Randian hero has much in common with Aristotle's conception of agathos, in that both are morally heroic and heroically rational.[1] The philosophers share a similar naturalist/objectivist meta-ethical perspective emphasizing character as the primary determinant of moral worth, and possess a fundamentally heroic attitude towards life.[1][3] The Randian hero exemplifies ethical egoism, the normative ethical position that the self-interest of the individual ought to be the basis for moral action.[1] The specific virtues of the Randian hero, like the Aristotelian ideal, are created from rationality, the primary virtue; rationality is the hero's basic tool of survival, to be exercised at all times.[4] The primary value, the "highest moral purpose", is happiness (cf. eudaimonia).[4] Rand frequently declared her motive and purpose in writing to be "the projection of an ideal man";[2] all of her protagonists are heroes