Ethical Egoism In Anthem By Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand is most known for her belief that people shouldn't care about the other people; She refers to this an ethical egoism, she believes that people who rely on others or the government are “ looters” and “moochers”, and at most I kind of agree but in the end I found myself mostly disagreeing with her on her point of view. In my opinion, I Believe it is in human nature to care about the others and that yeah, we should care about ourselves as well, but we need to treat others the way we want to be treated. Ethical egoism is an absurd form of saying one is selfish and they Ayn Rand put it she believe that it is when one cares about know one else and shouldn't have to care about anyone else for it is not our problem, I strongly disagree …show more content…
In Ayn rand's book anthem, she was about how us being unselfish can lead to our dependence on the government and soon to our doom. people see it a lot nowadays how people don't depend on the government like the situation described in any book would have to be pretty severe to go that wrong that it leads to a complete do-over of every government ever created on the earth right now (that includes north Korea because that are under dictatorship, not an equality act though they are often compared) the governmental situation in the story anthem describes life if every single person on earth was equal, there is no “I” there is only “we” in the beginning of anthem i must admit i found it hard to stomach the consistent use of the word “we” instead of the word “I” I had so much trouble with it for a while I was gonna drop the book and read literate that I actually want to read, I am however very happy that I chose not to the story conveyed through I do not agree with its standpoints in interesting in the least once you get past that problem. It did, however, take quite a while before I figured out as to why they didn't say the word “I” it was simply because they didn't know it, now I know that sound ridiculous, but it wasn't till the “golden one” said “we are one… alone … and only… and we love you who are one...alone...and only”(87). so in the story she does describe in a way a perfectly equal and only when they leave that government do they learn that they don't have to care about others, which now brings us back to the main topic ethical egoism in some cases good in others bad, but my point stands and we disagree with the point of everyone should be egotistical the way Ayn Rand describes how human should act, and that the government is something we should be afraid