Selfishness does not mean only to do things for one's self. One may do things, affecting others, for his own pleasure and benefit. This is not immora… - Ayn Rand

By the same principle, the government may not give special leniency to the perpetrator of a crime, on the grounds of the nature of his ideas.

If you know that this life is all that you have, wouldn't you make the most of it?

We are on strike against martyrdom — and against the moral code that demands it. We are on strike against those who believe that one man must exist for the sake of another. We are on strike against the morality of cannibals, be it practiced in body or in spirit. We will not deal with men on any terms but ours — and our terms are a moral code which holds that man is an end in himself and not the means to any end of others.