My life did change reading Fountain Head!

@graywinsler referring to the objective part whether or not one would save a child drowning?

And the Selfishness.

Selfishness exists universally in the world today - take for example all the children starving in many poor countries around the world, yet governments spend billions on weapons and space programs rather than transporting millions of tons of food being wasted to those starving children.

Isn't this NOT saving that drowning child and yet the governments of these developed nations consider themselves to be the guardians of human rights!
And there is another dilemma which is similar to the above predicament.

What would you call a guest who comes into your home, murders you, rapes your wife and daughter and declares himself as your son's father?
This is what has been done over millennia in many countries where people were forcefully converted to the religions of their invaders, robbed of their wealth, culture and made to follow a different way of life - shunning their heritage and everything that they held dear.
The sad part is that the generations spawned from the victims of these atrocities call these invaders their heroes - these villains who invaded their lands, murdered their fathers, their brothers, and raped their women.
How can one save this child from drowning?
So, I agree with Ayn Rand on everything she says.