Ayn Rand - The Morality of Objectivism

Ayn Rand speaks about her philosophy of reason. http://www.LibertyPen.com

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[TheLegalImmigrant05]

Here is a thought for you: Rand insists that you are responsible for figuring out what constitutes your happiness, and then for pursuing it relentlessly. If your happiness includes helping others (if helping others is a VALUE to you), you should absolutely do it. So objectivism does not have to contradict Christian morality if you include conscience into the equation.

To me, Objectivism is first and foremost about human dignity and liberty.

[HapaLife]

Who cares what she looked like. The mind is what ultimately matters, and in terms of the lottery she got the winning ticket.

[crothersdaniel]

Such a strange character who can disgust me one minute and inspire me the next.

[smithsisdeadx]

@TheLegalImmigrant05 And to add on to this beautifully stated point, a person who does not find value and happiness in helping others should not be criticized and condemned for it. It is only their own life, if they are pursuing their own happiness, there is nothing that needs to be said.

[facing42]

@zwiiyt It is still your reason that is establishing you need faith to survive.

[zwiiyt]

I disagree with rand. Faith is something that can actually be a means of survival for many people. I know that there are many things about ourselves that empirical evidence could prove to be true, and it then may be so that we will not like what the evidence tells us about ourselves. How can one live a happy life knowing that he is:

1. Ugly

2. Dumb

If you have to accept these then it will lead to depression and perhaps suicide. Depression is not a healthy state of being anyway.

[9avedon]

Rand is a very tough lady. Her ideas demand respect because there foundation is reason and real world experience. Socialist hate her because there own philosophy is a scam to steal others productivity.

[AEVautomatic]

She used to wear a cape everyday.

[sniped101]

@TheLegalImmigrant05 it doesn't have to contradict it but got GOD telling people to kill women and children and unborn babies and keep some for yourself is immoral all day.

[soweyesee]

i thought i thought of this.lol i did read the virtue of selfishness taught me a lot.

[pplayer666]

@TheLegalImmigrant05 "so objectivism does not have to contradict" - she has clearly stated that selfishness is the man's vary nature.

she was a media clown that's got the amount of attention she received for the sole reason of contrast of being born in a communist regime; having such a retarded russian accent and her beliefs being downright capitalist arse licking idiocy which every retarded yank cheered up to due to US-Russian rivalry.

[glovisy]

@kellzoflab

then you have a twisted definition of "faith".

Putting faith or trust in something (or someone) means assessing its past examples of trustworthiness/safety/faithfu­lness, and THEN extrapolating into the current situation.

"PROVEN examples" of safe flights in the past isn't a guarantee that the plane you're on won't crash. You are putting faith in pilots, mechanics, and ATC. You're putting your life in their hands and saying "I trust you guys because u usually get it right" = faith.