In this talk from the 2015 Objectivist Summer Conference, , author of In Defense of Selfishness, discusses the difficulty in defining moral concepts, among other concepts, due to package deals. Package deals are terms that try to integrate items by non-essentials,
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It is Not Just About Voting
It is nice when current events allow you to hammer home a philosophical lesson, in this case, it is the danger of package deals. By package deals I mean the phrase as Ayn Rand meant it:
[Package-dealing employs] the shabby old gimmick of equating opposites by substituting nonessentials for their essential characteristics, obliterating differences. – “How to Read (and Not to Write), The Ayn Rand Letter, I, 26, 3