Reply To: Atlas Shrugged and the Torah

I dunno folks. I didn’t read her books as being against charity. (maybe there were a few lines that advocated such an idea, but I certainly didn’t think that was her thesis in any way, and the rest of it certainly survives regardless of that.)

She believed knowledge was based on sensory perception(eliminating morality), despised all forms of religion, and believed the highest purpose of man is his own selfish happiness.

That is way to philophosical for me. Whatever.

Here’s the money quote: “An individual should exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself.” That’s a disgusting ideology, which will only lead to a culture of selfishness, hedonism, and the abandonment of good deeds.

That’s a quote from an interview, and in the full reads:

“My philosophy, Objectivism, holds that:

From reading the book, it appeared to me that point 4 was the main thesis. I pretty much agree with it.

A lesser point is point 1, which I also find too philophosical for me. I barely noticed points 2 and 3 in the book.