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In reply to the discussion: Dick Cavett - I knew I loved that guy [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)I remember thinking when my children were small that I could not believe it but I really would have gladly died if I could have saved my children. I never needed to, but that is the biological link between a baby and its mother (and maybe also in the father, but I never was a father) in, I believe, a normal person.
Ayn Rand was an abnormal person in my estimation. She was not a person who could know the ultimate joy of selfless love. That joy is essential to the healthy continuation of our species, as is the need to be part of a family and a society that is nurturing and in which we are protected as we nurture others.
A child cannot survive its first 10 months to 1 year of age without the nurture of its parents. That is pretty much not true of other animals, other species. Ayn Rand's philosophy ignores the social nature, the necessarily social nature of humans and despises our also necessary interdependence on each other.
In short, her philosophy is irrelevant to the reality of human life, our needs, our survival.
Sorry, I'm not saying this very well.
But the essence that a society that assiduously followed her philosophy would, I believe, become extinct within two generations.
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