Selfishness is an abstract word. Applications?
Yes, each human has separate mind. Whatever is put in this mind, it does.
If the mind is trained to care about others, it does it, because that's what the mind wants to do. Is this also selfishness? If it is, well, then the way you define selfishness gives no more useful information, except that each mind is separated, and operates on its own. So what?
There is practical difference between the mind that wants to take over and control the world, and the mind that wants to give everything it could access - to the world. Even if those minds operate basically in the same way, which you may call selfishness.
Ayn Rand is a human too. Like every other thinker, no matter how famous or influential. We should step out of the frame of their ideas, and think also what made these people view the world this way. Like each of us, they had their personal flaw of objective analysis. How is it more relevant than your own? Where is the objective proof?
Yes, each human has separate mind. Whatever is put in this mind, it does.
If the mind is trained to care about others, it does it, because that's what the mind wants to do. Is this also selfishness? If it is, well, then the way you define selfishness gives no more useful information, except that each mind is separated, and operates on its own. So what?
There is practical difference between the mind that wants to take over and control the world, and the mind that wants to give everything it could access - to the world. Even if those minds operate basically in the same way, which you may call selfishness.
Ayn Rand is a human too. Like every other thinker, no matter how famous or influential. We should step out of the frame of their ideas, and think also what made these people view the world this way. Like each of us, they had their personal flaw of objective analysis. How is it more relevant than your own? Where is the objective proof?
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