[Am-info] Ayn Rand Institute?

[Eric M. Hopper]

On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 08:59, Hans Reiser wrote:
> Mitch Stone wrote:
> 
> > She is much beloved and taken very, very seriously among free market 
> > zealots of all stripes, and especially libertarians, a group she 
> > curiously disavowed during lifetime.
> 
> Can you say more about her disavowing libertarians? I was unaware of 
> that, and I am curious as to why.

Her term for them was "The hippies of the right.".  As I understand it,
it's because libertarians feel it's only your right, not your duty to
put your own self-interest above everything else.  She felt strongly
that the only moral life was one in which you followed your own
self-interest while not interfering (politically (i.e. with force or
threat of force)) in others pursuing theirs.

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