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In “The Ethics of Emergencies,” Rand does offer a justification of giving one’s life to save a loved one:
"If the person to be saved is a stranger, it is morally proper to save him only when the danger to one’s own life is minimal. . . . If it is the man or woman one loves, then one can be willing to give one’s own life to save him or her—for the selfish reason that life without the loved person could be unbearable."
But if, as the preponderance of her writings suggests, survival qua man is to be understood thinly, such a person would be making a serious mistake. They would in effect be substituting a hedonistic standard—the presence or absence of unbearable feelings—for the standard of survival, rather than bringing their feelings into accord with their objective values through cognitive psychotherapy.
--- [Reason and Value: Aristotle versus Rand] By Roderick T. Long
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