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• ‘Right Out of Atlas Shrugged’: Hear an Exasperated Alabama Businessman Tell the Feds – ‘I’m Just Quitting’

  July 26, 2011 at 5:15pm

  In reply to MONICNE.

  Monicne,
  So, objectivists are selfish, bitter, and sad? Wow. How many do you know, or have conversed with. The objectivists that I know constantly seek to better their character, improve their professional and life skills–and love honestly and completely. Certainly Ayn Rand was an aetheist, and had no use for religion. What you have overlooked, that regardless of her disbelief in God, she believed in values, morality, and the never-ending quest to attempt to perfect ones soul. Reason is indeed everything–because that’s the tool we use to perceive reality and to learn what works! Genuine emotion is the RESULT of what one’s thinks (of one’s reason). Feelings (real feelings) do NOT exist independently of reason.
  There is a difference between selishness and greed. To be selfish is to care about your interests–this can be good or bad, depending upon your moral character. What many people deem “selfish” is actually greed.
  In objectivist philosophy, sexual desire is the result of your highest values. If you value integrity, hard-work, and truth–the person you desire will naturally share those values. It’s worth mentioning that Hank Rearden and Dagny Taggert shared values–Rearden and his wife did not.
  Altruism is the pursuit of self-sacrifice above all. It is suicide in slow doses–just look at the people who practice it.
  Disapproving of Reagan is hardly a character flaw–it was an opinion based upon his policies. She was entitled to her view.