I agree with Ayn Rand to an extent; as dobnits pointed out, her conclusions make sense within certain contexts and under certain limitations. My biggest problem with Objectivism is that it’s far too idealistic. It sounds good in theory, but the world simply doesn’t work that way. I’m a Libertarian in theory, and a Liberal in practice, for this exact reason. It’s also worth pointing out that a society in which everybody always acted entirely rationally would be boring as hell.

In response to the original post, Hitler was directly responsible for the murder of millions of people solely on the basis of their ethnicity, while Ayn Rand is not directly responsible for any killing that I am aware of, and if she were, it would have been by standards of intelligence, ambition and the willingness to work towards one’s goals, which I consider somewhat better criteria for determining who should live or die—though I can’t justify any sort of murder with a straight face. Saying Ayn Rand is worse than Hitler is an obvious exaggeration/lie.