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[chwdrhed]

Excellence is it's own reward.

[HhH]

GregS: Ayn Rand spawned a cult of her own...

and any fool can understand "objectivism" with about five minutes of sustained concentration. Of course, it is fundamentally fallacious and based on circular reasoning.

The core belief is that absolute knowledge can be obtained through reason, thus there can be absolute moral and immoral action. For the Rand cult, the discovery of the truth of some principle--whatever it might be--ends all discussion. If you disagree you are simply wrong. Period. Your flawed reasoning can be corrected, but if it isn't it's a case of heresy and you are dismissed.

So, I dunno Greg, but I view Ayn Rand as not only a second rate philosopher, one who deals in simple notions that appeal to the haves in society by telling them it is cool to screw everybody if it's in their own best interest, but I also think she's possibly the worst novelist of all time. But, hey, I could be wrong.