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From her book, The Virtue of Selfishness.

This is Ayn Rand’s answer to a question posed after a talk on the ethics of sex.

Question: Is it ever moral to take an innocent life to save one's own?

TIMESTAMPS
(00:00) - Intro
(00:10) - Is it ever moral to take an innocent life to save one's own?

Ayn Rand, “Of Living Death,” Ford Hall Forum, 1968

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