What About Suicide Bombers? A Terse Response to a Terse Objection

Marc Champagne
2011 Journal of Ayn Rand studies  
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."
doi:10.5325/jaynrandstud.11.2.0233 fatcat:aslf3axq2rd33le46vbopiyjni