[lsbskins1]

The real short-coming of my view is that it requires people to want to be kind for it to really work.It requires that people respect and value others just as much as they value themselves. Not more, not less.Yyou want me to say that I value the group more and I will not, because it is not true. The golden mean, baby. The middle path. Equal opportunity employment. And people tend to the selfish. They lean that way because they falsely believe that it is more advantagous. It is hard to get people to be giving and caring. Hard, because selfish people run around telling them that the only way to be happy is to fight everyone else for the goodies.

You keep saying I do not respect the rights of the individual. I would completely disagree with that. What I do not do is elevate the rights of the individual to the point that they negate the ability of society to function in a manner that does not give advantage to a select few. That is the problem I have with objectivism. I believe strongly in individual rights. You are barking up the wrong tree.