Thing is, I'm refering to egomaniacal in the sense that Rand would be one. Honestly I don't think shes egomaniacal, but if you choose to label her as one then I suppose I can't say I thinks its bad. And we all intrinsicly and unconciously focus on ourselves so much that if one chose to make a case for it, we could all be proved mentally ill in the sense that we are egomaniacs.
In fact that sounds like a good dystopia book.
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I said that traits like selfishness and selflesness are aquired through life, as opposed to being imprinted into human genetics. Instead of 'all the things I mentioned' being inescapable parts of human exsistance, I believe they are behaviour adapted in relation to the enviroment.
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And you're wrong.
Pick up any book dealing with the scientific study of human nature. I already reccommended this one to Helm, but The Blank Slate is a particuraly good one. A little too text booky at some points but still good.