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The Paradox of Iron-Rand
The Tea Party's embrace of Iran Rand doesn't seem to square with the Tea Party's predominant Christianity. Can I suggest a resolution to this paradox? So my friend or pen pal David Sloan Wilson, who's an evolutionary biologist, was trying to categorize different words that referred to either altruism or selfishness. And curiously, what he found was that most of the language in these fundamentalist religious texts relating to selfishness and altruism fell into either the win-win category or the lose-lose category. All of the language about morality in iron-rand's texts is either win-win or lose-l Lose.