[Letters to the press August 20th, 2003.]
If the Rev. DAVID A ROBERTSON wonders whether Hitler believed in
self-sacrifice perhaps the following quotations taken at random from vol.
I of "Mein Kampf" may answer his question:
"The readiness to sacrifice one's personal work and, if necessary, even
one's life for others shows its most highly developed form in the Aryan race."
"The renunciation of one's own life for the sake of the community is the
crowning significance of the idea of all sacrifice."
"In the German language we have a word which admirably expresses this
underlying spirit of all work: it is 'Pflichterfüllung,' which means the
service of the common weal before the consideration of one's own interests."
"For it is a necessity of human evolution that the individual should be
imbued with the spirit of sacrifice in favour of the common weal..."
"Posterity will not remember those who pursued only their own individual
interests, but it will praise those heroes who renounced their own
happiness."
The name of this moral corruption is altruism, an ethical doctrine which
many people today equate with benevolence.
In reality, however, altruism is far from benevolent: it is a lethal
spiritual toxin which has fueled the destruction of countless human lives
through the elevation of something other than the individual as the very
STANDARD of evaluation.
The solution to this error isn't mysticism, irrationality and
self-sacrifice, but reason, freedom and the right to pursue one's own
self-interest.
Only one social system is compatible with such ideals: capitalism.
And that is why capitalism is the only truly moral social system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Virtue_of_Selfishness
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