I often refer to a certain kind of behavior as “Ayn Rand villainy”, and people ask what I mean. Unfortunately, Ms. Rand has not written a concise explanation that precisely lines up with what I got out of her work, as far as I know, so I have to write one myself.

Rand characterized the emotion as “the hatred of the good for being the good”. Unfortunately, the problem with this description is that it sounds like a Care Bear villain, but to be honest Ayn Rand villainy is kind of a Care Bear villain mindset, so here we are.

Oops, they accidentally described how Ayn Rand is an horrible writer, twice.

I thought the article was boring, but there’s some quality r/badphilosophy under the “bad stoicism” link:

It was another consequence of the bad Kantianism (not to be confused with Dark Kantianism) I was sticking with at the time, but that wasn’t what made me first twig I’d gone wrong. The trouble was that morality only applied to me. I felt contempt for my own weakness if I let other people move me, but I wasn’t angry when people I knew were sad about being treated badly. If I shared my stoical beliefs with them, I only pitched it as a pragmatic coping mechanism, not the moral imperative I considered it when applied to myself.

So what do you call someone who thinks she has a unique moral duty and that everyone else is exempted from mattering in the same way? Solipsist seems like a fair accusation.