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Rand's comment about happiness was taken completely out of context. Yes, she advocates happiness as the moral purpose in an individual's life; however, the sentence immediately preceding that quote is: "Man must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself." She says later, " No man may initiate the use of physical force against others." If you understand her history, you'd know that much of her writing was directed against both Communism and Nazism. If you have read The Virtue of Selfishness, from which you quote her, p.33 is devoted to making the point that without ethics -- without a proper code of values -- pursuit of happiness disintegrates into hedonism. You have successfully supported Ayn Rand's point on the need for ethics in your effort to denounce her philosophy.