{"id":628,"date":"2022-05-04T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/?p=628"},"modified":"2022-05-03T08:30:29","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T15:30:29","slug":"the-evil-of-self-sacrifice-by-aaron-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/2022\/05\/04\/the-evil-of-self-sacrifice-by-aaron-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"The Evil of Self-Sacrifice by Aaron Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>Everyone knows that altruism \u2014 selfless sacrifice for the sake of others \u2014 is the essence of virtue, right? But what if, like the concept \u201cselfishness,\u201d our understanding of the true meaning of \u201caltruism\u201d and \u201csacrifice\u201d is completely mistaken? What if these ideas are actually destructive and harmful? From Ayn Rand\u2019s perspective, our whole way of thinking about morality needs to be radically rethought.<br><br>Recorded at AynRandCon &#8211; Europe in London on April 2, 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone knows that altruism \u2014 selfless sacrifice for the sake of others \u2014 is the essence of virtue, right? But what if, like the concept \u201cselfishness,\u201d our understanding of the true meaning of \u201caltruism\u201d and \u201csacrifice\u201d is completely mistaken? What if these ideas are actually destructive and harmful? From Ayn Rand\u2019s perspective, our whole way&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[16,13,499,10,216,12,43,15],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-podcast","tag-altruism","tag-ethics","tag-evil","tag-individualism","tag-life","tag-philosophy","tag-sacrifice","tag-selfishness","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}