mjgardner, “Do not hide behind such [altruistic] superficialities as whether you should or should not give a dime to a beggar. That is not the issue. The issue is whether you do or do not have the right to exist without giving him that dime.”
—#AynRand, from “Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern World”
Listen to her full talk on the role of #philosophy in history and the basic contradiction in Western culture between #reason and the morality of #altruism: https://courses.aynrand.org/works/faith-and-force-the-destroyers-of-the-modern-world/
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