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To: annalex
The fact remains that objectivism has nothing to teach us in terms of ethics.

She had a new idea with her attacking altruism, which she framed as premising the self as evil. I don't know of anyone before her to have thought of this.

156 posted on 03/21/2005 9:12:09 PM PST by secretagent
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To: secretagent

New it is; the closer to the absurd a thought comes, the less is the chance that someone had thought about it before.

It wouldn't be charity -- or altruism, -- if by giving of myself I gave something bad. What is given in charity is by definition good, so the giver, who gives of himself, must be good.


157 posted on 03/21/2005 9:35:28 PM PST by annalex
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