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First of all (to logon didonai),
rational egotism is an oxymoron.
Egotism entails biased
individualism.
Rational entails
unbiased
reasoning.
Individualism
entails
acknowledging and respecting one's individual preferences.
Altruism
entails
acknowledging and respecting individual preferences of another person no less
than one's own person.
Objectivism
entails
acknowledging and respecting objective truths (truths which are independent of
individual preferences).
A rational individual is someone
who asserts all three of these isms --
object-i-v-ism,
alt-r-u-ism and
individual-ism,
wouldn't
you agree?
Second (to Ayn Rand's fans), by her own admission, Rand was opposed to
all forms of control, which in my opinion is quite irrational
persuasion because it's counterproductive to negate all rules, just as
bespeaking for absolute control is counterproductive.
(Absolutism of any type is
counterproductive and, for that matter, not feasible even if pursued ardently,
nor is desirable since it makes conscience obsolete).
And what is being an objectivist
without being unbiased or without being rational?
And if by control Rand did not mean
having rules, what did she mean by it?
Really, what are rules if not principles?
And what are controls if not rules?
And by the way, what is rational
approach to rampant fraud or turpitude if not having controls (rules or
principles) that dissuade it?
- Aleksa
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