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Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 1:45 pm
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Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 2:59 pm
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I'm not claiming to be totally versed in Rand's thought. But I never got the image, when reading her works, that she meant living for one's self in the whole spectrum of literalness that that entails. Of course, it could be me adding my own bias.
As an example, the whole "everyone is in everything solely for themselves." I saw it as "make sure that the actions that you do is what you do because it's what you chose to do -- not because something made you do it." Ergo, I would choose to love someone (friend, lover, child, or otherwise) not because social norms tell me to or that I have to, but because I want to and I choose to. And the actions I choose to do is based on the grounds that I have made it a "code of ethics" of sorts to myself to love this other person.
If I betrayed a friend, lover, or child, it would break her thinking of ethical selfishness (essentially, do what you want so long as what you do does not jeopardise or use other individuals).
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