selfish_to_the_point_of_stupidity syringe Know anyone who wears this particular crown? 011229 ... Aimee myself 011229 ... Trinity I'd believe it. 011229 ... yummychuckle ditto-ness, but me too. still yet... 011231 ... kerry i know plenty of people like that... i don't think any of you know them, though. 011231 ... hey now! anyone who thinks that in the end, all people are selfish. thats stupidity. 020101 ... blown cherry I don't think I'm selfish to the point of stupidity, I think I'm just stupid to the point of stupidity. 020505 ... silentbob to the point of wanting material possessions and everyone's approval and trying to decide which one is more important. to the point of making someone feel guilty after lying to them with MORE lies and lies and lies and lies 020505 ... BrotherDB So I take it that beliving in the Ayn Rand school of thought it wrong? Well you just think that cause you don't know who she is. 020506 ... werewolf i wouldn't mind arguing with her...as long as she promised to not use the term looters more than once. Besides, she would openly admit that certain levels of selfishness can be stupidity. Her theory would probably rest along the lines that truly sage selfishness takes into account the negotiations one must do with others. Blind selfishness would involve ignoring one's needs for others and therefore not serving yourself as wisely as possible, by choosing one selfish impulse over a more central one. Of course the opposite would be stupid selflessness which i'm sure you've all felt the sting of at one time or another in your life. But even selflessness isn't truly selfless because it could be our minds way of trying to be a memorable person, a person held in high esteem. Sacrificing ones life or time is something that gets you remembered, and ever since our brains started up, our memories seek to replicate themselves as voraciously as our cells and dna do. So...that said....who is john galt? 020506 ... freud for androids i don't know, i don't think i've come to that part yet, but it sounds like you're asking the impossible. 020507 ... CRO no. I'm not selfish. I'm a very giving person. Just another reason why normal people think i'm [insert word here] stupid, weird, creepy, nuts etc etc. They have to read stuff into everything. I gave him a few bucks to buy a meal with. it wasn't to impress you. It wasn't to balance my karma. it wasn't any of a hundred different things, but as soon as you deny them - well, they must be true if he denies them 020510 ... Invisible })i{( Butterfly ..it just makes me wanna smack sum sense into them! grrr 020602 ... littleidiot yes. yes. this is me. yes. 021206 what's it to you? who go blather from