>>9358559I would read through Atlas Shrugged with Libertarian friends
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCS0Spe8xjsLadies and gentlemen:
Mr. Thompson will not speak to you tonight. His time is up. I have taken it over.
You were to hear a report on the world crisis. That is what you are going to hear.
For twelve years, you have been asking: Who is John Galt? This is John Galt
speaking. I am the man who loves his life. I am the man who does not sacrifice his
love or his values. I am the man who has deprived you of victims and thus has
destroyed your world, and if you wish to know why you are perishing—you who
dread knowledge—I am the man who will now tell you.
You have heard it said that this is an age of moral crisis. You have said it yourself,
half in fear, half in hope that the words had no meaning. You have cried that man's
sins are destroying the world and you have cursed human nature for its unwillingness
to practice the virtues you demanded. Since virtue, to you, consists of sacrifice, you
have demanded more sacrifices at every successive disaster.
In the name of a return to morality, you have sacrificed all those evils, which you
held as the cause of your plight. You have sacrificed justice to mercy. You have
sacrificed independence to unity. You have sacrificed reason to faith. You have
sacrificed wealth to need. You have sacrificed self-esteem to self-denial. You have
sacrificed happiness to duty.
You have destroyed all that which you held to be evil and achieved all that which you
held to be good. Why, then, do you shrink in horror from the sight of the world
around you? That world is not the product of your sins; it is the product and the
image of your virtues. It is your moral ideal brought into reality in its full and final
perfection.
