Reply #10: Funny. [View All]

[silverweb]

"Man—every man—is an end in himself, not the means to the ends of others. He must exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself. The pursuit of his own rational self-interest and of his own happiness is the highest moral purpose of his life."

This is actually an easy philosophy to accept as "enlightened self interest." As such, I have no problem with it and if you accept the whole thing, it isn't that much different from the Golden Rule.

But like all other fundamentalist zealots, radical Libertarians cherrypick, leaving out the parts they don't like. What they choose to ignore is the most important part: "...nor sacrificing others to himself."

Every wrong thing we seeing happening has happened because people sacrifice the good of others to their own wants.