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2. What exactly are we debating here?

Wed Sep 24, 2014, 12:04 PM

Sep 2014

Wiki seems to have clarified the differences.

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Enlightened self interest versus rational selfishness (Ayn Rand) [View all] Cary Sep 2014 OP

What is your point? marions ghost Sep 2014 #1

Several points Cary Sep 2014 #5

What exactly are we debating here? JaneyVee Sep 2014 #2

My guess safeinOhio Sep 2014 #3

Yes. n/t Cary Sep 2014 #4

Discussion, not debate. Cary Sep 2014 #6

she was on welfare for years samsingh Sep 2014 #8

Ethics doesn't need to be this complicated. ZombieHorde Sep 2014 #9

To make it very simple safeinOhio Sep 2014 #10

Or at least: ZombieHorde Sep 2014 #11

It is very simple, but safeinOhio Sep 2014 #13

But people are seduced by rational selfishness Cary Sep 2014 #12

They boil it down to safeinOhio Sep 2014 #14

True Cary Sep 2014 #15