Richard G. Parker, MD
@rich56635
Physician, writer, and trader: "The unexamined life is not worth living" (Socrates) — and the unearned, unchosen, or sacrificial life isn't worth choosing.
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"The cause of the U.S. health-care mess is governmental interference. The solution, therefore, is not more governmental control, whether via nationalized medical insurance or a government takeover of medicine."
Onkar Ghate, "No Right to ‘Free’ Health Care," Ayn Rand Institute, June 11, 2007.
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"One of the grimmest monuments to altruism is man's culturally induced selflessness: his willingness to live with himself as with the unknown, to ignore, evade, repress the personal (the non-social) needs of his soul, to know least about the things that matter most, and thus to consign his deepest values to the impotent underground of subjectivity and his life to the dreary wasteland of chronic guilt."
Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature, rev. ed. (New York: Signet, 1971), Kindle edition, p. 4.
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