No MoraL Significance

In The Virtue Of Seflishness, Page ix, Ayn Rand laments that an altruistic ethic shames a man for most of his ethical pursuits: "Apart from such times as he manages to perform some act of self-sacrifice, he possesses no moral significance: morality takes no cognizance of him and has nothing to say to him for guidance in the crucial issuess of his life; it is only his personal, private, 'selfish' life, and, as such, it is regarded either as evil, or at best, amoral. My response: The worldly work for dark powers. Egoism is the ethics of goodness, hope and liberation, but if the individual does his own thing, he is dismissed as evil or amoral. Only his unselfish acts are praised. It is a wicked, mixed up world where, what is wrong is labeled right, and what is right, is labeled askew and undesirable. It goest to show that those that do evil lie all the time. There is a close correspondence between truth-telling and truth-living and moral and spiritual worth.