Objectivism (philosophy)

[Hatuey]

God wouldn't follow Objectivist principles because objectivism completely rejects the concept of dieties, divine intervention, needing a messiah, etc. Objectivism is about the pursuit of a man or men an the "Objective" truth that life devoted to one's own improvement without sacrifice or compromise. Its basically against Jesus's teachings of devotion and giving up everything for god. Sacrifice is a big no no to objectivism unless its done for equal value.

God doesn't have a deity, and if one does exist, I would assume that it could, if it wanted, be "objective" in the way you describe.

 

[Barbarian]

The primary objection to Objectivism, is the same as the primary objection to Marxism; it depends on humans not acting like humans. We evolved as bands of hunter-gatherers, who depended on each other for survival, and most humans in most such societies would risk their lives to save any member of the band.

It had a survival value. Bands that didn't develop this way, were far more likely to die out. And many of them likely did, because they weren't sufficiently willing to sacrifice for the common good.

Of course, that wasn't universally the case. There surely were many paleolithic objectivists who realized that their fellows would be self-sacrificing, even if they weren't. It made perfect economic sense to our hominin John Galts, to enjoy the benefits of altruism, while cheating whenever possible.

The issue is that if there were too many of them, the society collapses. Hence Rand's puzzlement as to why so few people were impressed with her ideas; there are millions of years of successful societies saying she's wrong. Probably a lot of biology, by now, too.

But the perfectibility of humans is a continuing dream, no matter how impossible it might be.