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Objectively though: no one owes anything to society. I can take my education and my creative works to my grave and the Universe doesn't care. Your original argu
by w4ffl35 3y ago
Objectively though: no one owes anything to society. I can take my education and my creative works to my grave and the Universe doesn't care. Your original argument was from a moral high-ground that doesn't exist.
> I'd have bet on that if it weren't a certainty—no good if bookies' odds were only even money. :-)
I held these beliefs long before reading anything by Rand.
- hilbert42 3y ago"I held these beliefs long before reading anything by Rand." Right. I've not only read several of Rand's books but I still have my decades-old copy of Atlas Shrugged. She didn't change my mind but she enlightened me about people like you think. It's strange how people with such opposite and irreconcilable views can actually live in society and yet, somehow, it still manages to function.