Word: altruism
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...techniques? Do we make this choice purely out of a love for intellectual stimulation? Do we undertake these careers for financial security, or for the status of being a member of what is fast developing into a new priesthood? Or do we activate ourselves as scientists out of an altruism, out of a desire to improve the quality of human life by reducing suffering and exhaustive labor? Chances are, we go this way for all of these reasons... but how often and how deeply do we ask ourselves why each of us, as an individual, goes, and where...
Rand is aware that advocates of altruism and socialism say they are for self-fulfillment. They maintain, she recognizes, that one is best fulfilled where one sacrifices the freedom to be selfish, and works for the common good...
...bombshell, Atlas Shrugged, which has since provoked a divorce of the libertarian from the conservative right and made Rand into an arch-hero or arch-villain, to those on the right. The novel portrays the fundamental issue of our time--and all time--as that of selfishness versus altruism, liberty versus tyranny, capitalism versus socialism. She begins from the premise that man is an end in himself, and that his morality should ultimately bring him happiness. The pursuit of happiness, Rand says further, is a selfish drive. If one attacks selfishness as being immoral, one attacks human fulfillment--and self...
...free, non-coercive societies will choose these systems. If they are not the most fulfilling, men will choose others. The absolutely most important right to preserve, she says, is the right of choosing the system one wants to live under--and respecting others' rights to do the same. When altruism becomes compulsory or socialism becomes coercive, she maintains, this right dies...
...listing jointly examples of financial opportunism, bribery and altruism, and failing to distinguish between them, you do a grave disservice to those of us in the U.S. who spend our money to express a point of view that we believe to be for the good of our nation-money that has no selfish motivation whatsoever...