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Sounds religious enough to be a dogma. A man does not require any kind of code (most people don't have codes) even to survive. They also don't really require values any more or less than they require sight -- they simply have it because that was how things turned out, and they make use of it because it is an immediate part of what they are.
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Humans cannot avoid having a code of ethics anymore than they can avoid having a philosophy. If you were to say someone does not require any code of ethics, that in fact would be a code. Unfortunately, many people do attempt to live without a defined, conscious code of ethics. The results are all around us. If you want to live, if you care to feel joy and happiness, you will not achieve it by living your life as a floating abstraction - unaware of what is right and wrong, good or evil.
You say that people do not require values anymore than they do not require sight. Ultimately, you are saying people do not require their life. Is your sight of value to you? What is the value of living? The moral purpose of anyone's life as defined by Ayn Rand is happiness. Through a rational code of values people are able to enhance their lives. Even when you wrote that you might value someone else more than you value yourself. What do you actually mean? How can you avoid saying "I" when you say "I love you." If for some reason you were to say "I could not bear to live without this person in my life." You could not avoid saying "I." You could not avoid saying of value to "me."