America was founded on a proudly selfish ethics of YOUR right to YOUR life, YOUR liberty, and the pursuit of YOUR happiness. For the first time in history a citizen belonged to himself, not to the king in his palace or the local nobleman in his fortress or the tribal chief in his mud hut.
Spamguard calls me a “Randroid”. The insult implies an unthinking belief. But unthinking belief is what has taught most people to assume that self-interest is a terrible thing. As Ayn Rand used to say, “Check your premises”.
America was founded on a proudly selfish ethics of YOUR right to YOUR life, YOUR liberty, and the pursuit of YOUR happiness. For the first time in history a citizen belonged to himself, not to the king in his palace or the local nobleman in his fortress or the tribal chief in his mud hut.
Spamguard calls me a “Randroid”. The insult implies an unthinking belief. But unthinking belief is what has taught most people to assume that self-interest is a terrible thing. As Ayn Rand used to say, “Check your premises”.