Ayn Rand's Remarkable Statement

 Let me quote two sentences from the Introduction, pages viii & ix from Ayn Rand book, The Virtue of Selfishness; here is that remarkable statement: "Observe what this beneficiary-criterion of morality does to a man's life. The first thing he learns is that morality is his enemy; he has nothing to gain from it, he can only lose . . ."

If morality is egoism, or rational self-interest, than to inculcate young people with the common, typical ethical code of altruism, then self-interest, or morality, is his enemy. Self-denial and self-sacrifice in service to humanity are the expectations for him, and that is spreading evil in the world. Rand could not be more correct.

What is bad is called good, and what is good is called bad, and this is why moral science does not advance.