The root problem is that altruists have no problem with this. To the altruist, sacrifice is good, and the more sacrifice to the "greater good," the better. ''The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.''~Ayn Rand wsj.com/articles/covid… via @WSJ
"Reason destroys fear; egoism destroys guilt. More precisely: reason does not permit man to feel metaphysically helpless; reason does not permit him to accept unearned guilt or to regard himself as a sacrificial animal.
But a man indoctrinated with the notion that reason is impotent and self-sacrifice is his moral duty, will obey anyone and anything. "If sacrifice is equated with virtue, there is no stopping the advance of the totalitarian state.
'It goes on and will go on,' said Howard Roark, the hero of The Fountainhead, "so long as men believe that an action is good if it is unselfish. That permits the altruist to act and forces his victims to bear it.' " ~ Peikoff, The Ominous Parallels
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