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Dagny was willing to risk her life because she loved the d&#k. I guess the other guys did, too.

Anyway, don't try to overthink Ayn Rand stories.

Rescuing John Galt was in the rational self interest of those who performed the rescue.



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To be fair, it wasn't much of a risk. The "maximum security" facility was guarded by one guy who was too incompetent to operate his pistol.

One of the many important things John Galt's full speech (in the novel) makes crystal clear is that risking or giving up something you value, in exchange for something you value more, is not a sacrifice. It's a trade you enter into for your own self-interest.

A mother who gives up the chance to buy a hat so she will have money to buy food for her baby is not sacrificing, if she values the baby more than the hat. A man who risks his life to save another man, someone he loves, admires, and considers to be worth at least as much as himself, is not sacrificing either.

But someone who has to be manipulated into this sort of heroic action, NOT because he believes he will be doing something of value by his own standards, but in order to assuage his own guilt or please others or appear brave, is operating against the quoted principle.