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To: concerned about politics

I gave everyone I know a copy of it for Christmas. IMHO it’s required reading for the entire populace. I don’t necessarily agree with everything in it (there is a place for *voluntary* altruism, IMHO, for instance) but it made me think harder than any book I’d ever read and drastically altered my view of the world.

LQ


55 posted on 03/16/2009 7:36:13 AM PDT by LizardQueen (The world is not out to get you, except in the sense that the world is out to get everyone.)
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To: LizardQueen
(there is a place for *voluntary* altruism, IMHO, for instance)

I believe she said there was a place for voluntary altruism when they are in Galt's gaulch where altruism is warranted when it's to your benefit such as loved ones, friends and counterparts. Ill have to check though... But I think a Donahue interview in the 70's she mentioned it as well. This belief clashes with Christianity and that is the hardest part for a Christian capitalist to reconcile when reading Rand's work.

81 posted on 03/16/2009 7:54:57 AM PDT by smith288 (Americans suffer from Stockholm Syndrome with the government)
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