| | Pretty good, Ed! I might have done it a bit differently myself, but not bad.
I think I would have stressed that a morality which allows the sacrifice of others to self allows the sacrifice of self to others, and that allowing the sacrifice of self to others is not selfish, but self-sacrificial.
In other words, the virtue of selfishness simply says that man is not an object of sacrifice -- that he should, in Rand's words, "live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others, nor sacrificing others to himself." To which the respondent would reply, "Gee, I never thought of it that way!" :-)
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