Yet, egalitarianism doesn’t require enforcement to operate anymore than individualism. You can have both. The fact I care for others out of my own personal concern for others and that I give others as equal of consideration and treatment as I best can without anyone putting a gun to my head or threat of some hellish afterlife is evidence that the Randian thesis that altruism is bad or not a quality worthy of cultivation is without teeth. Rand’s thesis depends on a total disregard of biological history where cooperation and interdependence has won out across the entirely of the tree of life (cooperation is the found iirc in the majority of species either directly or indirectly).
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