As a libertarian who is not an objectivist I can say that I think the Objectivist philosophy overall does a good job in justifying itself and being consistent. There are however a few possible holes I can see when it comes to the non-initiation of force. Take this scenario for instance. A person is in a desert and is dying. His only option to survive is to steal food or water from a camp owned by a man. The amount stolen would not kill the tent owner but would only be sufficient for the man to l
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To those of you saying morality does not apply, contrast the two positions taken by Ayn Rand here:
and here:
Why has nobody in this thread defended the unequivocal statements of Ayn Rand in her original, definitive work, "The Ethics of Emergencies", written to address this very question, featured in the canonical book of Objectivist ethics, "The Virtue of Selfishness"? Why instead have they taken these other comments - which are highly contradic