Open AccessWhat About Suicide Bombers? A Terse Response to a Terse Objection
Author(s) -
Marc Champagne
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
the journal of ayn rand studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 9
eISSN - 2169-7132
pISSN - 1526-1018
DOI - 10.5325/jaynrandstud.11.2.0233
Subject(s) - assertion , pronoun , psychology , philosophy , linguistics , computer science , programming language
Stressing that the pronoun "I" picks out one and only one person in the world (i.e., me), I argue against Hunt (and other like-minded Rand commentators) that the supposed "hard case" of destructive people who do not care for their own lives poses no special difficulty for rational egoism. I conclude that the proper response to a terse objection like "What about suicide bombers?" is the equally terse assertion "But I don't want to get blown up."
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