Fred Bauder wrote:
This is closer to Ayn's own view. My take on her view is "an altruist, is someone who gives up something our of their own *needs* (i.e. not their excess) to someone else who has done nothing to deserve it". Ayn was not against giving your excess to charity.
Ayn Rand never got to see Wikipedia, but I can't believe she wouldn't be proud of Jimbo's role. If she was so foolish as to try to edit, I'm afraid she'd have to be banned as a crank who insists on original research.
There's a big Randy crowd out there that seems to forget that what she wrote was fiction.
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