I posted the following under to the original source from my site: https://forum.xk.io/n/10025. Copy-pasting here since it’s relevant, and because I want to say it here, too.
I was so very wrong about morality and interpersonal harm.
I’ve read Galt’s speech.
In n/10017 (the parent of this post) I said:
Sometimes those projects/decisions only impact a single person, in which case they’re probably amoral – that’s okay. Morality is about interpersonal harm, […].
I was so very wrong about this. Morality does concern one’s actions, since some actions are right and some are wrong. But morality is not about harm (interpersonal or otherwise), at least, no more so than it is about rocks.
I am starting to understand.
I’m not sure enough, yet, to say what morality is about – I could try, but I don’t want to rush it. I want know it before I claim to know it. Soon, I will be sure enough.
I’m grateful that JustinCEO (on the CF forum) noticed this part of n/10017 and challenged me on it, and I’m grateful that he and ingracke found it worth their time to discuss it with me.
I am grateful for Ayn Rand – her life, her works, and most of all: her mind. Right now, I’m grateful particularly for Atlas Shrugged .
I have a special gratitude for Elliot, not only for his participation in the above-linked thread (among many other things, too many to list here), but also – and, right now, primarily – for his labor, dedication and ideas that safeguard the closest thing I’ve ever known to a sanctuary .
Why do I express my gratitude? I admire their virtues. Why am I grateful? Their virtues have allowed me to profit, and I will continue to. And I know that they have and will, too.
CC @Elliot @ingracke @JustinCEO (as you’re mentioned above).
Atlas Shrugged is changing my life.