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Quote by: Objectivist  History upholds everything that I have said.
Christians believe that altruism is an ideal. Objectivism holds that that is the greatest sin. Nothing good has come from the belief that you must sacrifice yourself for others. Only the countless wars and bloodshed. |
Really so then all the soldiers that died in those wars you mention didn't sacrifice themselves so that you might have the freedom to entertain your objectivist viewpoints?
I find it amusing that people that believe in idologies such as this or libertarianism seem to think that it would work. How are these ideas any more valid or invalid than communism, democracy, socialism, fascism, ect? People that support marxism believe it to be the best way, some think a monarchy is best, libertarianism is best, socialism, objectivism. They are ideas and on paper they all seem to really work well, it is in practice that the holes in them emerge.
This is not some sort of revolutionary or amazing new thinking, it is simply another idea in the cesspool of societal ideas of which there is no one perfect idea.