| | I noted some passages from entries in the Lexicon that are relevant:
"The Objectivist ethics holds that human good does not require human sacrifices and cannot be achieved by the sacrifice of anyone to anyone." VOS, 28.
"It is not society, nor any social right, that forbids you to kill--but the inalienable individual right of another man to live." Textbook of Americanism, 7.
"An individualist is a man who says: "I will not run anyone's life--nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule nor be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave. I will not sacrifice myself to anyone--nor sacrifice anyone to myself." Textbook of Americanism, 6.
Mindy
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As I see it, the debate turns, ultimately, on whether you hold man's survival, or man's survival qua man as your touchstone. My argument, essentially, is that it is only the latter that Objectivism contemplates.
