gautier@ai.cs.wisc.edu (Jorge Gautier) (03/23/88)
In article <5468@well.UUCP> dhawk@well.UUCP (David Hawkins) writes: >Unfortunately individualism, at least in the guide of Objectivism, >replaces the right of the tribe/group to kill with the power of the >individual. Rand states that man (her term) only has a right to exist >as a reasoning being, and then gives the example by having Dagny shoot >the guard because he refused to make a rational choice. > [deleted] Would you care to give the reference for this? The above point of view is definitely NOT projected in the Rand essays that I have read. She has said that the only moral existence is as a reasoning being, but nowhere I have read that it is the only rightful existence. --- Jorge Gautier @ Wisconsin, gautier@cs.wisc.edu "The fact that my internal arrangement differs from yours, doctor, pleases me without end."