[Randex]The public interest and the the limits of volunteerism

[O-Land News Junkie]

The libertarian Right insists that so-called "public goods" and "public interest" are nothing more than simple summations of private goods and interests. Indeed, as Ayn Rand put it, "there is no such entity as 'society,' since society is only a number of individual men... The common good" (or "the public interest") is an undefined and undefinable concept..." ("The Virtue of Selfishness"). In fact, and contrary to libertarian dogma, in numerous identifiable cases [...], the individual pursuit of optimum personal freedom and benefit can be detrimental to society at large.

http://randex.org/index.php/weblog/the_pub...f_volunteerism/

[Jody Gomez]

Hmm...kind of contradicts itself. If there is no such thing as society, then the individual pursuit of freedom and personal benefit can't be detrimental to society(because there is no such thing). If society is made up of individuals(which it is), then the pursuit of individual freedom can only be beneficial to "society."