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On Capitol Hill, Rand's 'Atlas' Can't Be Shrugged Off : NPR
notes from Mike Wallace interview of Russian born Ayn Rand (find link on NPR page)
AR challenges moral code of altruism
self-sacrifice is the precept that man needs to feel concern for others
that makes man a sacrificial animal
I say man is entitled to his own happiness
nor should he sacrifice himself to others
it is immoral to place love above self interests
welfare state moves world toward disaster
reject the idea that majority has right to vote on everything
majority can not vote a mans life or property or freedom away from him
no right by the gov to tax
I have no faith at all, I only have conviction
Mike Wallace asked how do we build roads, sanitation facilities, hospitals, under your system?
Thesaurus
shrug
PHRASES
shrug off he just shrugged off all of my advice disregard, dismiss, take no notice of, ignore, pay no heed to, play down, make light of.
