Re:'Atlas Shrugged': From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years
by msg on Saturday January 10, 2009 @09:28PM
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No. A rich executive loses a whole bunch of money. He "lost a lot for himself", but he was acting from selfish motives, like the search for more money.
"Selfish" goes to motivation, not consequences. Depending on the amount of pessimism in your dogma, you can always interpret actions as selfish or altruistic after the fact.
Reasoning that can create two equal and opposite arguments like this doesn't mean anything.
"Selfish" goes to motivation, not consequences. Depending on the amount of pessimism in your dogma, you can always interpret actions as selfish or altruistic after the fact.
Reasoning that can create two equal and opposite arguments like this doesn't mean anything.