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Ayn Rand "The notion that 'Anything society does is rightbecause society chose to do it,' is not a moralprinciple, but a negation of moral principles and thebanishment of morality from social issues."
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Rand is a tool (I mean that in a pejorative and literal sense). The greed of the powerful is never sated, and all along their crusade they get richer while everyone else gets poorer. Gotta love the 'free market.'
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Say what you will of Rand, the quote can stand alone. It's a bit like the "is atheism a religion" debate in that its truth value hinges on the definition of "moral principle"/"religion".
In this case, if you hold that society *is* capable of determining the nature of moral principles, then the quote is false.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/moral+principle
http://www.trinity.edu/cbrown/papers/moraltruth.html
..Yes, totally on-topic, why?..
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