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Quote by: Objectivist  Any actual examples MG or just more speculations?
Ayn Rand formulated her opinion on altruism with selflessness as the highest moral virtue. To "live for others" is only a part of selflessness... the other part is to repudiate and give up your values for the values and lives of other people... to sacrifice a higher value for a lesser one. |
If people willingly accept the conditions of altruism because it benefits them, Ayn Rand's philosophy is put in a difficult position. It can be argued a properly altruistic life is a fine existence. I am not particularily altruist, but nor am I without empathy.