00:00In general, weakness is not just weakness.
00:03Weakness is also a lot of dishonesty.
00:07Because no weakness is really natural.
00:11Weakness is a choice.
00:13To empathize with weakness is to endorse that choice.
00:17And that's why there is a distinction between mercy and compassion.
00:21But we'll be very eager to offer sympathies.
00:25In Ayn Rand's telling scene, Gail Winand had a contest in his book.
00:34The book is called Banner.
00:35The contest was that there is a promising, talented, struggling, young scientist
00:41who needs money for his lab.
00:44And at the same time, there is this woman
00:49who is into her fifth or seventh pregnancy.
00:54and is poor.
00:56Who wants to give them both?
01:00Thousands of people have given money for that woman.
01:03Not a single man, not a single person
01:06offered money to the scientist.
01:09And sympathies are always with the meek one.
01:13But what is the description?
01:16I will be very good for the test of the scientist.
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