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Are compassion and community evil?
Mike Lux, Huffington Post
Egoism |
Inaccurate |
[T]he compassion-equals-evil argument didn’t really get laid out in detail until Ayn Rand’s writings, where she actually did argue that people with compassion and concern for others were leeches who drained society of its competitive life blood. Just as Ayn Rand took the Social Darwinist argument and made it more virulent, the conservative author Jonah Goldberg brought a new, more extreme twist to the argument, literally saying that progressives like FDR were ideological soul mates of Hitler and Mussolini’s brand of fascism.
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