She talked about sacrifice, altruism, love and selfishness. I am not sure about which brilliant thought you Randy meant in your comment.

I want to bring more questions to what she talked in the interview. What if she has her own kids, and if some of them are not at very hign standard of intellect, emotions or spirit. Would she love those kids less than others? Or would she love her kids at all since every child requires some sacrifice from their parents, from their time, money, space and even freedom. I wanted to ask same questions to Randy too.

And what is the LOVE at all? What do you mean by love and life for the greater good? I heard that Ayn would tell that one should never sacrifice his own happiness for the sake of others. But does the life for the greater good is meant necessary a sacrifice one’s own happiness? Do you really think so? Is the greater good means that some should have less good and others have more good OR everybody must have more good, be MORE happy and wealthy.
Is the life for the greater good meant a win-lose or win-win?
In my interpretation the life for the greater good is a win-win strategy.

And what is the love then? If some of your kids have more flaws than others would you just kick them out from your house or you try some ways to fix it?
What Ayn meant that we should not love those with flaws and love more those with virtues?

It is funny but actually I think what she meant is that we should love those with virtues and we should love those with flaws too. But we should love them in a different way. We spend less time with those people – why? In fact because we believe in values and virtues, and we believe that any man can change and become a better person. That is the very reason why we are strict with those people. When we do that we give them a sign that they are able to change and become better people. But how will you call such behaviour? Isn’t it a LOVE toward those people? Yes it is! You don’t behave with them in the same way as you behave with people with better values, simply because you love them. You may call it a father kind love a strict one in opposite to the mother kind love an embracing one.

Its funny now but what Ayn actually advocates is that we should love everybody, but we should love them in a reasonable way.

All my life I’ve given freely, never expecting anything in return. Well, half a century later I looked around and guess what? I discovered I got exactly what I was expecting. Nothing.

Now I’ve shifted my mindset to one of delivering high value, and receiving high value in return.

The economic pump needs to be primed with prosperity consciousness, not with the Federal Reserve’s fake Monopoly Money.

-RG

I noticed a missed word in my comment. One sentence should be read: “Even ones riches may not be possible to achieve if worked and lived all alone by oneself.”

-RG

I was dealing with some dilemas and your words got presisly to the heart of the question.

So the dilema is finaly resolved, i feal hole again with the desitions I made, calm and happy.

thank u so much for helping me with that one
It is very important to me.

Dan Gershinsky
Israel

You wouldn’t buy our shitty cars.
So we’ll be taking your money anyway.
The bailout. Coming this January.

You probably thought it was smart to buy a foreign import of superior quality, with better mileage and resale value. Maybe you even thought that years of market share loss might prod us into rethinking our process and redesigning our products with better quality in mind. But you forgot one thing: We spend a shitload of money on lobbyists. So now you’re out 25 billion, plus the cost of your Subaru.

Maybe next time you’ll buy American like a real man. Either way, we’re cool.

GM, Chrysler and Ford
We’re The Big Three. We Don’t Need to Compete.

http://www.davidicke.com/content/blogcategory/30/48

First I dont agree with the bailout… Its similar to me saying: oops I cant pay my laon so can some one bail me out?

I wouldn’t expect someone to help me. If those guys couldn’t be effective, then why should they get bailed out. It’s a crock that its saving the little guy – it’s government backstratching lobbyists, who then help them… etc etc…

So what’s the solution, Randy? What do you think should happen instead of a bailout?

Thanks for the courage to speak outloud what it’s uncomfortable to the masses and not keeping it to yourself. The message will get to whoever’s ready for it.