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I don't know what just happend, but it seems that Ayn Rand corrupted my player!
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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5726569" data-attributes="member: 2067"><p>The Objectivism comes in the ethical dimension, rather than the political one. The Fated believe that rational self-interest is the moral rightness. They reject altruism. They are tax collectors, but the taxes don't go to the poor in Sigil (there's no real form of economic wealth redistribution), they go <em>to the Fated</em> (and the Fated's interests and allies). This is in their rational self-interest, and, as they are clearly the only ethical Faction in the city (by their own definition), it's in everyone else's rational self-interest, too, since if they followed the Fated philosophy, they would join the Fated, and thus have the funds distributed to them.</p><p></p><p>Of course, it is not an expy. There's key differences (for one, the Fated hold to a sort of individualist anarchism -- the rights belonging to those who can take them -- as opposed to Rand, who seemed to think that there was a role for the state in protecting an individual's rights), certainly. </p><p></p><p>But the Galt line in AS: "I swear—by my life and my love of it—that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.", is very kin.</p><p></p><p>The Free League is pretty Libertarian, too, and they'd find allies in the Fated in certain respects (they both probably support Sigil's...infamously...free market!), certainly. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 5726569, member: 2067"] The Objectivism comes in the ethical dimension, rather than the political one. The Fated believe that rational self-interest is the moral rightness. They reject altruism. They are tax collectors, but the taxes don't go to the poor in Sigil (there's no real form of economic wealth redistribution), they go [I]to the Fated[/I] (and the Fated's interests and allies). This is in their rational self-interest, and, as they are clearly the only ethical Faction in the city (by their own definition), it's in everyone else's rational self-interest, too, since if they followed the Fated philosophy, they would join the Fated, and thus have the funds distributed to them. Of course, it is not an expy. There's key differences (for one, the Fated hold to a sort of individualist anarchism -- the rights belonging to those who can take them -- as opposed to Rand, who seemed to think that there was a role for the state in protecting an individual's rights), certainly. But the Galt line in AS: "I swear—by my life and my love of it—that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.", is very kin. The Free League is pretty Libertarian, too, and they'd find allies in the Fated in certain respects (they both probably support Sigil's...infamously...free market!), certainly. :) [/QUOTE]
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