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My problem is with lunatics defining themselves as "completely self-made men" - as if they fed themselves when infants, built the roads they drive on, educated their teachers, and so on - who then turn around and define everyone they don't like as "takers" to justify screwing them over. Yes, I have a big problem with that behavior, and that is what you get when people take Rand seriously.
All of these self-proclaimed "makers" are believes in the Just World Fallacy and don't have wit enough to realize the role luck plays in life or humility enough to realize how other people helped them get to where they are today. No... in their crack-pot Randian vision, they are "makers" and "self-made men" - but anyone who's beneath them or who's had a rough time of it is a "taker" and thus deserves nothing.
Rand's philosophy is literally an attempt to rationally justify selfish behavior - even she basically admitted to that - and I don't see how anyone can consider such a mindset acceptable. I find it doubly ironic that right-wing extremist who claim to be "Christian" support Ayn Rand since not only did she despise religion, there is no way to reconcile her "being selfish is good" philosophy with proper Christian morality.
Then you didn't properly read the book, or understand what metaphors are.
It's what makes you happy. You just don't like the "personal responsibility" part of her philosophy. Now if she believed in dependency you would be all for her philosophy.
"The virtues of her philosophy are principled policies based on rational assessment: rationality, productiveness, honesty, integrity, independence, justice, and pride."
"As a youth, she had been repelled by the communists’ political program."
So why object to someone backing the introduction of her philosophy into the classroom?
When have I ever said I object to Ayn Rand books being read and discussed in a classroom? All I have done is given my opinion on the selfishness of Rand'Band's philosophy.
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