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To me, it's stupid. It basically implies that our actions should be considered as though in a vacuum, and the effects on others should be ignored, since, I don't know, those people didn't work hard enough to avoid being adversely affected by other's actions.

Take Cortland, from the Fountainhead. If Rourke had just destroyed the plans, since he designed them, he might have a point, but because he designed it, we are expected to believe he has a right to trespass on property that another man likely earned with his own work, and has a right to destroy construction that other people built by their own hands.

Basically, objectivism is too inconsistent to actually work.

Plus it implies that altruism can only be forced, it can never be a willing choice to help others.



A flashy-first game is awesome when it comes out. A great-first game is awesome forever.

Plus, just for the hell of it: Kelly Brook at the 2008 BAFTAs