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To: microhoogle! who wrote (43040)9/29/2011 9:19:46 PM
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Click on the link and read the reviews by her two biographers. That tells the tale. IMO she was a sociopath. I don't want to beat a dead horse, but I simply do not see what people find so compelling in her philosophy?

But regardless, who wants to live in a world where greed and selfishness is considered good? She lived in an ugly world of her own creation. I want no part of her world.

It also denies the ability of a thinking person to create a warm and wonderful world. I have seen many people create warm and wonderful worlds for their children and others around them. I think my kids would tell you I and their mothers created a warm and wonderful world for them. And they thank me all the time for raising them gently and always being there for them. Many parents put their children as a first priority. I raised them gently and both grew up to be strong successful young women.

Both were hard working students and decent human beings. Both are kind and generous and very happy young women. Rand would say they are fools. How? They both did better than she did.

I reject the idea children/people cannot be productive members of society based solely on their will power to do so and also be kind and generous.

I do find it a bit depressing though, that I find myself so often defending compassion? That should be a truism IMO.

I console myself with a quote from the great Eric Fomm: "the most neurotic person is he who adjusts successfully to a neurotic society" e.g. nazi's or Limbaugh and Beck-lol.
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