Ayn Rand addressed long held beliefs of the US society and questioned them, abused them, and in the end turned some of them on their head. She was not a nice person. Some was part her, some was her first language thinking does not politely translate into a diplomatic conservation. She did not back down, and was often quite correct in her assessment.
She beat altruism into the ground, and established that self interest is the best foundation for moral conduct, that and not making slaves of others or allowing us to make slaves of ourselves. Her morality stands up to Aristotle, the Stoics, Buddhist, Confucius, and beats our familiar Christian by a long stretch. It is rationally derived from reason, perceptions, self-interest and similar foundations.
It appears that some of our long held beliefs in regard to live, food, and similar are OCD tough, and are just wrong. So once we (I) understand and correct these misconception, will the problem reduce. So note this foolery going on, and ask, "how much of this bullshit is there in real life?", and conclude, enough to cause all sorts of problems. And statins, the crap the drug companies peddle.
And then there the silent scream of climate sciences. We cannot engineer ourselves out of that problem. It is too late. I expect that some of the obesity problem is climate change. We humans have a issue with overeating when we are tired. We get tired as we run out of oxygen, and as Co2 goes up, we get tired. So at 300, we were ok, 400 not so much. There is a correlation, but is there causation?
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