Love and Selfishness The following editorial has been produced by the Ayn Rand Institute's MediaLink department.
Romantic love represents an exalted exchange between a man and a woman.
It is a selfish response to the value of someone else to you. The contrary view, that love is selfless, destroys love itself. Actually, it is committed year-round, but its destructiveness is magnified on this holiday. Love, we are repeatedly taught, consists of self-sacrifice. Love based on self-interest, we are admonished, is cheap and sordid.