[lbo-talk] My Ayn Randian, libertarian loving relatives....argh... !!!

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Jan 2 14:37:34 PST 2010


On Jan 2, 2010, at 4:45 PM, Chris Doss wrote:


> It basically holds that I get to do whatever I want, and everybody
> else will do whatever they want, and things will work out best in
> the long run for everyone.

I'm not fully versed on my Randism, but I think they prefer the liberty argument to the efficiency one - selfishness is right and just, and Pareto optimality is just a fortunate byproduct, if that is the byproduct.

Doug



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