Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!flink From: flink@umcp-cs.UUCP (Paul V. Torek) Newsgroups: net.philosophy,net.politics.theory Subject: Re: Ayn Rand's derivation of her ethics Message-ID: <832@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 19:27:35 EDT Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.832 Posted: Fri Jul 12 19:27:35 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 15-Jul-85 00:05:25 EDT References: <787@umcp-cs.UUCP> <3978@alice.UUCP> Reply-To: flink@maryland.UUCP (Paul V. Torek) Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 12 Xref: linus net.philosophy:1776 net.politics.theory:891 In article <3978@alice.UUCP> ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig) writes: >In several places, [Rand] said that it is entirely rational that you >might value another person so much that you would be willing to >do anything for that other person. But to so value people you have >never met? That you don't even know exist? I value people I've never met -- not THAT much. But some. It's not irrational; it comes from acknowledging their similarity as human subjects with benefit and harm at stake. Valuing others to the exclusion of oneself is indeed irrational, but "selfishness" (even Rand's mild variety of it) is not the only alternative. --Paul V Torek