Why all the hysteria over Ayn Rand?

Altruism means "serve everyone but yourself" when the logical thing to do from the utilitarian perspective is to serve everyone including yourself.


The basic principle of altruism is that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the only justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, virtue and value.
Do not confuse altruism with kindness, good will or respect for the rights of others.


Ayn Rand meant selfishness in the sense of standing up for yourself. There are many real life examples of where the traditional roles of selfishness and altruism are overturned, where selfishness is good and altruism is evil. For instance if you're being bullied the altruistic thing to do would be to sacrifice your own personal gain for others, by sitting there and taking it like a little bitch. The selfish thing to do would be to gain pleasure at the expense of others, escape, tell your bros then jump them the next day, spraying them up with mace and beating them with phone books.

I don't agree with Ayn Rand on everything, I believe the "common good" as a concept has been abused, not that it is invalid. The common good should ideally be democratic concerning groups and include individual rights when the group is at odds with the individual.

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/altruism.html
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/common_good.html

However I have never heard anyone criticize Ayn Rand on these legitimate points and issues, only ever "hurr durr selfish randroids derp".

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Alex Jones is a shill for Israel and does anything to defer culpability from jews or if he ever implicates people who are jewish he refers to them by a number of even more deferential terms: banksters, mafiaso, bilderbergers, reptilians.
Norman Finklestein would have been a better example.

Didn't know about this Brother Nathanael guy before, and he does speak a lot of poignant truth that would make brainwashed shabbos goy schiz out at the thought of since their programming can't compute it, however...
He seems a little off himself, like the only reason he's doing it is so that he can be considered a `Good Jew' among the growing number of awakened gentiles who reject the electric jew media and implant the difficulty of `not all jews are bad', while still probably doing plenty of child molesting and swindling himself. Maybe that air of criminality is just an unshakable trait of jewish genes, maybe he's what he's passing himself off as and just looks like he's doing shady shit underneath, but when it comes to a jew, it's guilty until proven innocent. Plus if he isn't yet another jewish sock puppet cleverly presented as a jew, why hasn't the mossad silenced him yet?

Tell me this, how many good gentiles have died in jewish ordered wars (which ww1 and 2 and vietnam all fall under, by the way) and on the street after being robbed by the jewish run economy?

Judaism is built about a pretense of equality in a sense isn't it? The belief in a `Grand Broker', so what would be wrong with the infantesimal number of `Good Jews' getting swept away with the rest of their multitudes of swindling counterparts? Anything else would be unfair and inequal and thus sacrilege. And anyways it'll happen either way once the civilization collapses. Jewry may be able to run amok in the pretentious `civilized' world, but strip away all that and they'll be first on the pillaging block among any constituency.