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Subject: The Virtue of Selfishness: re to Campos
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Date: Fri, 18-Jul-86 10:06:23 EDT
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> Tim, have you read "The Virtue of Selfishness"?  Do you know what
> "selfishness" Rand is talking about?  (It's rational self-interest.)  Do
> you know that "greed" is not part of it?  Before you sneer at something,
> at least know what it's talking about.
> -- 
> Marc Campos, GenRad Inc.			{decvax,mit-eddie}!genrad!mxc

Yes, I have read "The Virtue of Selfishness".  Selfish greed with no
concern for others (except as they affect oneself) is *exactly* what it
advocates.  Frankly, the book disgusted me as much as racist tracts.
Numerous times I felt the yawning pit of revulsion that I felt when
I read Wm Shirer's "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" when he describes
the butchery of "The Final Solution".  The selfishness was appalling.
But in the interest of openmindedness I read it.
I would not waste my time on such drivel again, anymore than I would
reread racist tracts.
                        tim sevener   whuxn!orb