Sam

Ha, yeah, I figured someone would say something about that... all you smart smarty smarties But yeah, I know, I was just asking for clarification because I wasn't sure how that situation fit into Objectivist views on altruism.

Ahh, okay, I understand now. Thanks!

Oh okay. I was slightly confused because there was this one part in "Objectivism..." by Peikoff that said something to the effect of it was okay for a college student to live at home as long as he was studying and his parents weren't sacrificing themselves. So, I wasn't sure how the firemen, etc. would fit into that context because their job is their value, like how the student/child is the parent's value, but the parents shouldn't sacrifice themselves... so the firemen shouldn't either? Maybe I'm confusing contexts or something, I don't know.

I'm still new to Objectivism so please forgive if I'm not getting something straight. Yesterday was September 11th so I've been thinking about everything that happened. I was just wondering this morning how Objectivism felt about all the firefighters, police officers, paramedics, and others that sacrificed themselves in the attempt to rescue other people.