Objectivism holds, however, that emotions are crucial to enjoying life. B. Ayn Rand argues that emotions are not inexplicable and they need not contradict the intellect. Lewis illustrates with a scenario involving a life-size chocolate cake in the image of Tyra Banks. A person's reaction to this scenario involves perception, a basic identification derived from perceptions, and a lightning-fast evaluation, in the form of emotion. According to Ayn Rand, emotions derive from automatized reactions.
Emotions are at war only when a person holds mistaken or deliberately contradictory thoughts.
Emotions cannot function as a means of knowledge. B. First and foremost we must recognize individual rights. The first proponents of individual rights as the basis for society were John Locke and, later, the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. The concept behind individual rights is that of a political sanction of actions we take toward our own ends. There is only one way to violate these rights, and that is through the use of physical force.