This is just a philosophical question. Don’t think I am wanting to live this out.
I see why other people are valuable to my survival sometimes and why it is in my interest not to take their life sometimes but why isn’t it in my best interest to take the life of the poor, sick, or handicapped? Wouldn’t life be better well spent without having to care for thee people either directly or indirectly. What principle makes all life as opposed to simply my life, if I so chose to live it, valuable in as much as it serves my self interesting? I mean at the point that I see that I can benefit from something more by having my neighbor dead than alive why is it not good to murder him?
Quick and dirty response: what is it about Ayn Rand’s definition of goodness that would lead you to ask this question? What sort of context must not have been taken into account? Where does Rand ever suggest or propose that someone’s good can be realized by killing off the poor? What does any of this have to do with Rand?