Quote (Cannabist @ Jul 28 2022 07:42am)
Seems like quite a stretch
Satanist Alastair Crowley's Law of Thelema reads thus:
"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law".
Libertarian novelist Ayn Rand's mouthpiece Howard Roark proclaims in The Fountainhead:
"Man's first duty is to himself. His moral law is never to place his prime goal within the persons of others. His moral obligation is to do what he wishes, provided his wish does not depend primarily upon other men."
Finally, a passage from Austrian economist Ludwig Von Mises, who admired Rand's elitist stance:
"The ultimate end of action is always the satisfaction of some desires of the acting man. Since nobody is in a position to substitute his own value judgments for those of the acting individual, it is vain to pass judgment on other people's aims and volition." (Human Action)
Beyond differences in wording, and even though Mises's version is more nuanced than Crowley's or Rand's, these three extracts are essentially saying the same thing.
You might want to look up Bernard de Mandeville also.