[spunkets]

" Crime often pays. If self-interest is the sole standard for judging"

Rand gave the noninitiation of force principle to forbid that sort of action. That principle in the foundation of her moral code establishes what is forbidden as criminal and defines an evil.

[Roscoe]

Rand gave the noninitiation of force principle to forbid that sort of action.

Altruism that dares not speak its name.

[LexBaird]

" Crime often pays. If self-interest is the sole standard for judging"

Rand gave the noninitiation of force principle to forbid that sort of action. That principle in the foundation of her moral code establishes what is forbidden as criminal and defines an evil.

In other words, it's an arbitrary rule, axiomatic and unarguable in Randian philosophy. Just like the Word of God in a religious based philosophy. My, that's certainly objective.