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Would someone who agrees with something (anything?) that Ayn Rand has written please use the comments below to answer a question I have concerning egotism:

How can one espouse any sort of egoism, philosophical, ‘rational’ or otherwise, as a positive worldview and also maintain an affinity for any community - particularly one not formed or joined out of ‘rational self-interest’, such as a family, country, race, class or disposition?

It also seems to me that, if one is to be consistent, no one who claims allegiance to ‘egoism’ can then respect any ‘natural ligatures’ as Stirner would call them that, through their very being create “morality” - as understood in an egoist dialectic to be defined as duty to another, that antithesis to self-interest.

So then, anyone who professes any allegiance of a familial, national or racial type cannot, by the very definition of egoism, be considered an egoist, because even if we always (intentionally) do what we want to do, this only shows that our motivations are our motivations, not that they are in our self-interest.