Duty
"One of the most destructive anti-concepts in the history of moral philosophy is the term "duty."
An anti-concept is an artificial, unnecessary and rationally unusable term designed to replace and obliterate some legitimate concept. The term "duty" obliterates more than single concepts; it is a metaphysical and psychological killer: it negates all the essentials of a rational view of life and makes them in applicable to man's actions . . .
The meaning of the term "duty" is: the moral necessity to perform certain actions for no reason other than obedience to some higher authority, without regard to any personal goal, motive, desire or interest.
In reality and in the Objectivist ethics, there is no such thing as "duty." There is only choice and the full, clear recognition of a principle obscured by the notion of "duty": the law of causality . . . .
The disciple of causation faces life without inexplicable chains, unchosen burdens, impossible demands or threats."
~ Found at Ayn Rand Lexicon - Duty
con·sent
kənˈsent/
noun
- 1.permission for something to happen or agreement to do something.
