tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12256627.post8182640758561010684..comments2023-03-25T07:15:54.137-04:00Comments on Life and Hard Times Free Press: Selfishness helped health-care nationalization pass?Michael Morrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02868479933203338319noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12256627.post-6400593539729471012010-03-27T19:01:31.815-04:002010-03-27T19:01:31.815-04:00Timmy, let me be clearer about "selfishness&q...Timmy, let me be clearer about "selfishness": I consider it a virtue, and refer you and your millions of readers to Ayn Rand's book of that name.<br />But there is a rational selfishness -- for example, if you don't like or love your self, then you won't care if your self goes to Hell instead of Heaven -- and there is the selfishness that is really greed and envy, the hallmarks of Democrat Party ideology.<br />The people I quoted are, obviously, guilty of the latter, and in fact don't have the foggiest notion of what rational selfishness is (or perhaps rational anything).<br />My life belongs to me -- and "my life" includes my liberty and my property.<br />Democrats, and the other left-collectivists, are quick to warn us proles of "selfishness," and whenever we hear that warning, we should immediately put our hands over our wallets and run for our lives.Michael Morrisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02868479933203338319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12256627.post-47937263575193334012010-03-25T08:34:56.954-04:002010-03-25T08:34:56.954-04:00Oh, Michael; you couldn't have gotten it more ...Oh, Michael; you couldn't have gotten it more right! Kudos for a brilliant post.<br /><br />I'm going to link it at my websites.Tim Birdnowhttp://www.tbirdnow.mee.nunoreply@blogger.com