Posted by Andy123 on August 2, 2001, at 13:02:34
In reply to The Virtue of Selfishness..., posted by Kingfish on August 2, 2001, at 8:47:42
> the sacredness of the individual versus the good of the whole.
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> Where does everyone stand?Our society is so gung-ho into capitalism that we've gone way overboard towards selfishness and away from compassion. The "baby-boom" generation has been heavily influenced by the grotesque philosophy of people like Ayn Rand ("altruism is suicide.") Hopefully the pendulum will swing back towards folks having an outlook for something other than themselves.
More specifically, there are several issues that require alot of self sacrifice to address, and they are currently in a poor state of affairs. People who take a reasonable stance on things like human rights, wealth disparity, animal rights, and environmentalism are marginalized as impractical idealists. There are too many sick and terrible things happening in the world to be committed to selfishness.
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