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5. Selfishness is ok until you need someone's help.

Wed May 22, 2013, 06:41 PM

May 2013

You can't have a society made up of selfish individualists. At some point we need others and you would hope they aren't as selfish as you were.

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I'm With the Rand: Celebrity fans of the cult of selfishness. [View all] HiPointDem May 2013 OP

lol Sheldon Cooper May 2013 #1

After the last election, you'd think she wouldn't be heard about again rocktivity May 2013 #2

i remember being grabbed by Atlas Shrugged Enrique May 2013 #4

Selfishness is ok until you need someone's help. upaloopa May 2013 #5

... SidDithers May 2013 #6

Paul Rand would be proud! RandiFan1290 May 2013 #7

Depressing. I actually liked some of them. Deny and Shred May 2013 #8

For the millionth time... RevStPatrick May 2013 #10

Pitt & Jolie otohara May 2013 #11

Good to know. Rand love is an easy index to assholery. DirkGently May 2013 #12

Exactly, what a selfish fucking piece of shit Rand Paul is!!! gopiscrap May 2013 #14

Do Brangelina understand that Ayn Rand MOCKED the idea of charity? Ken Burch May 2013 #15

Billie Jean King was a progressive and feminist hero in the 70s. Ken Burch May 2013 #16

slol. she taught herself how to be selfish, as she says. HiPointDem May 2013 #17