Charlie, would you like to expound on your statement regarding laissez-faire? It seems to me that its main point is that government should not be coercive regarding economic activity. Everyone under his own vine and fig tree. As for charity, we all know that the highest form of charity is giving someone a productive job (and not make-work – see Shach Yoreh Deah 249:7). Capitalism does this best whereas as Socialism keeps people in dependency so that they will feel obligated to vote for the party that “benefits” them.As for the rest of Rand’s philosophy, she has her own definition of selfishness.For example, she says that a man should risk his life for his wife as he cannot bear life without her. However, I agree that most of her beliefs are anti-Tora. Certainly her atheism but also her super-rationalism, which denies emuna.
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