QUOTE(everyking @ Tue 31st August 2010, 5:07am)
QUOTE(anthony @ Tue 31st August 2010, 5:24am)
Neither Jimbo nor Objectivism have a problem with charity.
You'll have to explain it to me more thoroughly, then. Where is the distinction between altruism and charity? Isn't charity just an expression of altruism?
As I understand it, charity is helping others, while altruism is hurting yourself in order to help others. For Rand's view of charity, see
here.
QUOTE(everyking @ Tue 31st August 2010, 5:07am)
QUOTE(anthony @ Tue 31st August 2010, 5:24am)
She probably would have said that was impossible.
Again, I don't follow. How can it impossible to falsely use the idea for selfish gain?
This message board is probably not a good venue for me to explain that. Fortunately, my comment was not that it is impossible, but that Rand probably would have said it was. She held honesty to be a virtue, and the practice of virtues to be in ones self-interest.