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[estorpai]

This same guy will criticise China who practice better capitalism by producing better cheap goods and getting rich.He is just a greedy beast.Your party is over, the Asians are taking over the show.

[Grindermetalhead]

He talks a lot about his right to keep his property and the fruits of his labor and speaks vehemently against altruism and redistribution of wealth but people like him see no problem in redistributing the wealth and expropriating the fruits of other people's labor through exploitation.

Selfishness is not rational and self-sacrifice represents giving up a value and not getting anything back only if you do not value anyone else's life but your own. This so called "Objectivism" is anti-social.

[Grindermetalhead]

I'm not implying that self-sacrifice is rational but I'm opposing what his egoistic philosophy defines as self-sacrifice. Namely, every action that goes against this so called "rational self-interest" of gaining more property. Material property is not the only value in the universe.

Sometimes when you give up value in property for the benefit of others, you gain their love and respect in return. Don't these things also have value? And there can be no true liberty without equality and solidarity.

[pr0gm3r]

Human fundamentally double minded creature: Individual and Collective. Human always depend on others and yet human want to have private life.

Therefore Human inclined toward dualism. It is

[legendre007]

Good points on altruism, self-sacrifice, and individual rights.

[Nelapidae]

Excellent point distinguishing a Right from a permission slip!