"The pain-body wants to survive, just like every other entity in existence, and it can only survive if it gets you to unconsciously identify with it."

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Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals, the idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others.

— Ayn Rand