"You called it selfish and cruel that men should trade value for value... " - Ayn Rand

Posted by GaltsGulch 7 years, 11 months ago to The Gulch: General
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"You called it selfish and cruel that men should trade value for value - you have now established an unselfish society where they trade extortion for extortion. Your system is a legal civil war, where men gang up on one another and struggle for possession of the law, which they use as a club over rivals, till another gang wrests it from their clutch and clubs them with it in their turn, all of them clamoring protestations of service to an unnamed public's unspecified good." - Ayn Rand


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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 7 years, 11 months ago
    A number of people have asked what attracts a number of Christians to Ayn Rand, even though Ayn Rand would reject them on philosophical grounds. This Rand quote about "value for value" vs. extortion for extortion explains that attraction. Value for value exchange is the bedrock for any just society.
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