So you won't answer my question and you further demonstrate that you don't understand what you read. Abraham Lincoln was a racist by modern standards but he still felt that slavery was wrong. Rand may have been a racist (I have yet to read what you must be talking about) but she was a Russian by birth. Russians are known to be racist but that has nothing to do with her philosophy. Just as Socrates probably fucked a Greek ass or two but that didn't change what he wrote.
Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn
I understand objectivism. To her, reason is everything. All the good qualities are seen as weakness in her eyes; altruism, self-sacrifice, etc. While qualities like selfishness are praised.
In her own words:
"man exists for his own sake, that the pursuit of his own happiness is his highest moral purpose, that he must not sacrifice himself to others, nor sacrifice others to himself.”
What kind of fucked up, childish bullshit is that? At some point, most of us leave childish things behind and come to understand that we're all in this together and an attitude like hers is nothing more than someone who has never grown up. I can see the conservative desire to somehow co-opt her views however. She is for class warfare. She feels the lower class are parasites. She was an utterly despicable human being. And the fact you would waste breath to defend her illustrates your lack of any moral fiber.