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Originally Posted by The Unfan
They also both assume that it is rational to choose your life over another's. Can you prove you are more important than anyone else?
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The pursuit of happiness is the ultimate goal of my life. I can't pursue it if I am dead.
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Likewise, in the latter situation can you prove it is rational for that person to live?
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If they are deserving of charity. If the one donating believes in that person.
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I don't think rationality and morality are related at all.
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Well you are going to have to prove that morality has nothing to do with this reality then. Morality, in the sense of Objectivism, is the way to achieve happiness. In Objectivism one pursues rational goals with his rational morality. These rational goals are grounded in reality (because they are "rational" of course) so the way to the achieve them must also be rational and must also be grounded in reality.