finale Posted:

GRX, I really shouldn’t have to puzzle out your arguments or alignments from your posts- being forthright from the beginning could have saved us a lot of time.

I was forthright, just no one asked whom I aligned with.

Ayn Rand has, um, a pretty bad reputation in a bunch of circles, for a bunch of reasons.

Yeah, she was called a Socialist and a Communist during her time, and many people still don’t like her. Mostly because her teachings are hard to accept by the many.

I would strongly encourage you to read some criticisms of her work and Objectivism as a whole before you go quoting her.

Well I would suggest before you do that, actually try suggesting a material. More preferably, something that can be bought at a local bookstore.

Rand’s fictional novels, particularly, have a nasty rep as being designed specifically to ensnare people who don’t understand the context of their views, by creating worlds specifically around making the arguments of Objectivism seem valid.

Objectivism isn’t valid, how?