Then, in the sense of the consideration of the characters that Ms. Rand foresaw, I have a little “confession”: I’m a 10th grade student (but who really cares). Now, observe some of the discussions I’ve had with the collectivist professionals (I learn in a public school). These are not the exact full conversation, we talked about my curious handwriting as well, but the full relevant and contextual part of it: With the counselor:
“Yes.”
“Hi”
“Hi.”
"So . . . We invited you for . . . How are you doing, first of all?
“It’s all right.”
“Really? Good, honey. Well . . . I understood you hadn’t actually participated in the ‘team building-up day’ since, you didn’t really want to?”
“That’s right.”
“Then, well, maybe you’re coming from the Open School and all, Tomer, but you must understand that the stuff is different here. Here you have discipline and you do not decide whether you get to an operation or not”
“I get it and I’m here to learn.”
“That’s the whole point . . . You are not . . . Merely . . .”
“Maybe not for you, but rather for me, and that’s the beauty of business . . .”
" . . . You are here to finish with some social values . . ."
“Which values a society has?”
“In the ‘team building-up day’?”
“In a generalized way.”
“There is, for example, in the ‘team building-up day’, there is the value of belonging, fraternity, humility . . .”
“These are not values!”
“And even honor to the occasion’s organizer.”
“My time is a higher value to me.”
“Excuse me? Do I hear what I seem to?”
“Yes, the status is surprising. Sounds like he hasn’t . . . Done his passage yet.”
“It does not promote my life.”
“I really respect the fact you are cute and . . . Yes. But it doesn’t work so here. Life is not black or white. You only that which promotes you? Are you the central issue?”
“But they are black or non-black. And, in regard to the central issue, I could prove that if you brought me a pen and a paper . . .”
“No matter, I’m not here to argue. Just, give me mommy’s number.”
Thus she tried to get me ten points lesser in my math grade, but I succeeded to eventually avoid it.
Now, with the ‘self-obligation coordinator’: Then, t began when I told her that I have no opinion on my preferences for this task of ‘self-obligation’, and she suggested to recommend me about places, after clarifying that issue with all the other students who did not serve the self obligation form.
“Okay, begin with that: which place do I have the highest precention to get a minimum wage in future from?”
“W . . . What??”
“Which place do I have the highest precention to get a minimum wage in future from?”
“W . . . Why do you talk with in terms of benefit?! It is a duty!”
"Yeah, I know I won’t be allowed to get a monopoly certificate if I won’t be doing the self obligation task, but assuming I am I thought to try to use it to a future job.
“But . . . but . . . It is your commitment to the community! A donation to the society! You don’t do this for your own benefit!”
“Fine, but a livelihood is required, isn’t it?”
“Would you hear that? When you’ll be grown you’ll serve in the military, go to college and work in whatever you’d like. But now, you’re over here at school to learn.”
"And to earn something for now?
“No~! . . . Need help the society, the weak people, you live in a state and in a society, not in your own ivory tower!” [Thanks God it is not right to say in English, but in Hebrew when you wanna say that something is required in your opinion you can begin the sentence simply with ‘need’, i.e., without any subject!]
“Who need?”
“We want to educate our students to values of helping the weak ones . . .”
“I don’t.”
“But you do this any how, then why not do this for you deepest depths? From your hear? Thus ones needs to! That’s our purpose!”
“Let us face it: nobody does this task from “the deepest depths of his heart”. Students do this since they must.”
“The self-obligation project exists in so-many countries worldwide.”
“Then what? First your argument was that it is my moral duty and now that people shall use physical force on me to do it?”
“That exactly the idea: if you live in a society you should give your own. You don’t live alone in the jungle, am I right?”
“Why?”
“What ‘why’??”
“Why?”
“Because . . . We are human beings, not animals! We should help the weak ones!”
[Looking away] " . . . Man is a rational animal . . . How do you infer from that that he must help the weakest of his species?"
“Com’on, it is . . . Just because he is a rational animal! It is rational and cultured to help the weak ones!”
“How, exactly, is that argument rational and not emotional;?”
“Because a man who doesn’t help others live for his own sake, alone!”
"So . . .?
“Look, I don’t wanna get into . . . Philosophic discussions here . . . I can only hope that when you do your self-obligation task you’ll get how much . . . Pleasure it gives you.”
“I’ll get it if you’ll explain me.”
“Right, let’s just tell where do you wanna do your task and end with it.”
“Again, where do I have the highest precention to a future livelihood?”
“I don’t know about future livelihood! This isn’t my job! I’m here to know who donates the community.”
“If the standard is not my own value, I think that you’d better put me where there is enough stead.”
[smiling] “What is where there is enough stead? There are about 30 places. What do you prefer?”
“Then, in where there are the less volunteers.”
"I’ve got an idea, to suggest you? Fine! There is, to help a hardening child on the 7th grade?
" . . . No . . . "
“What? Why?”
“Because . . . I don’t really desire to help hardening children on the 7th grade . . .”
“What’s ‘not desire’? It is your duty to the society! Right, what’s your opinion about the SPCA? You probably like pets, do you?”
“Not . . . In the sense . . .”
“Do you have the report that details the self-obligation places, right?”
“I do.”
“What’s your opinion to look at it yourself, and come back to with a final answer later?”
“My opinion is that it will be pointless, just get me where there are less volunteers . . .”
“Good, nevertheless look at it, maybe it will change your mind. Now, get back to your lesson.”
Then, do you ask yourself, why will they keep behaving so even if they were proven that selfishness is moral and how can you avoid it? My opinion at the last paragraph above is as follows:
If them people you know do not get convinced from a logical proof such as it is, their problem is with the fundamentals, and in my opinion you should leave them alone: Their reason is volitional. The problem, therefore, is not necessarily with the clarity of the Oist explaination, especially when we talk of anti-conceptual mentalities.
Which made me feel very proud). Was it good for the guy who owns The Cleaner’s next door? No. Was it bad for him? No, Yes? – Maybe? you did take up the last parking spot.