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Hers is a perversion from aspect blindness that talks about rights in a vacuum without concern or care about harm. Right (i.e. morally correct) and the right (i
by ebg13 6y ago
Hers is a perversion from aspect blindness that talks about rights in a vacuum without concern or care about harm. Right (i.e. morally correct) and the right (i.e. morally allowed) are often not the same. A person has the right to deny food to someone who is starving, but it makes the denier repugnant, and I would rather not have them in my society. Rand starts from the faulty premise that the two are the same and descends into madness from there.
> I am not a follower of hers but...
How are you both not a follower of hers and also driven to conjure quotes? That looks a lot like when someone says "I'm not racist but <overtly racist thing>". (I'm not calling you racist. I'm drawing a similarity between "I'm not X, but").
- tfehring 6y agoI'll go further than the parent commenter and say that I think Randian ideals are absurd and anyone who sincerely supports or buys into them is deranged. But I think the quote is interesting in this context because it's so obvious and so relevant that capitalism is resulting in the same dehumanization that Rand ascribes to socialism. To put it another way, it would be easy to imagine this variant of the quote being real (to be completely clear, it isn't): >> Capitalism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to the capitalists, that the only justification of his existence is his service to the capitalists, and that the capitalists may dispose of him in any way they please for the sake of their own profit. > -Karl Marx ...and that claim, unlike Rand's, would have been both accurate and relevant.
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