-Criticism of responses so far- 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