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Fleabagger complains that Ayn Rand stylized murderer William Edward Hickman into a Nietzschean superman for his sociopathic qualities, i.e. for his standing against society.
How is Ayn Rand's idealization and idolization of William Edward Hickman any different from you all's idealization and idolization of Che Guevara?
That was short and sweet. BTW,
Rand also wrote, "The first thing that impresses me about the case is the ferocious rage of a whole society against one man. No matter what the man did, there is always something loathsome in the 'virtuous' indignation and mass-hatred of the 'majority.' … It is repulsive to see all these beings with worse sins and crimes in their own lives, virtuously condemning a criminal…"
Sounds familiar, you lynch mob?
Now for some of your fleabagger sound bites:
"There's something deeply unsettling about living in a country where millions of people froth at the mouth at the idea of giving health care to the tens of millions of Americans who don't have it, or who take pleasure at the thought of privatizing and slashing bedrock social programs like Social Security or Medicare."
Yeah, how dare those who are forced at gunpoint to pay for those programs to froth at the mouth.
"It might not be so hard to stomach if other Western countries also had a large, vocal chunk of the population that thought like this, but the U.S. is seemingly the only place"
So if all Western countries have a democratic vote on it, it's OK, whatever it is?
"where right-wing elites can openly share their distaste for the working poor."
One thinks that if the "working" poor gang up to loot, distaste is the least they deserve from productive individuals. So you'd like us better if we concealed our distaste?
"It turns out, you can trace much of this thinking back to Ayn Rand,"
Who had the temerity to tell productive individuals that they have a right to the wealth they produce.
"One reason most countries don't find the time to embrace Ayn Rand's thinking is that she is a textbook sociopath."
Newspeak for individualist = sociopath. And of course Rand isn't popular in the socialist peoples' states.
"…including the key architects of America's most recent economic catastrophe…"
The key architects of the "recent economic catastrophe" are you, the looters and moochers, who clamored for and got free money from criminal governments Republican and Democratic.
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Fleabagger wants to be friends with Randians.
You reach out to us to live in your community, yet in the header call our beliefs "nonsense" and in the second paragraph, our viewpoint irrational. Looks like we Randian loners still have better social skills than you fleabaggers.
Anyway, it is your viewpoint that doesn't make rational sense:
"Why are you so obsessed with being separate from everyone?"
We are only obsessed with being separate from looters that rob us at gunpoint.
"we must also live in community with others, care for others and participate in a dynamic and nurturing society."
A society you expect us to build for you, at the point of a government gun, at no cost to you. Build your own society, if you can. We're on strike. Drop dead.
"You have no morality."
We have the best morality in the world, the one that recognizes that we have no obligations to looting, mooching scum. "Hakuna matata: a problem-free philosophy."
"You can be lazy."
You are the lazy ones. We build things for ourselves, for our friends, and for those who ask us for our help. You build nothing for no one, but demand that we help you, without a word of thanks. If we give you something, all we get is ingratitude and a mob that comes back to demand more.
Get lost. The party is over. Get a job, or start your own business, if we find you unemployable.
"Please help me understand rather than attacking me the way those who have a Rand fixation often do."
Said the skilled networker that started hurling insults in the header.
"Together, my friend, we are greater than the sum of our parts."
I am not your friend since the header. Plus, we are great and you are the parts/tools.
"I'm honestly trying to understand"
No, you're not. We already covered that. You start hurling the insults, you're intellectually dishonest by definition.
"why you feel it heroic to cast aside morality,"
Because the only purpose of your counterfeit morality is to permit you to steal from us, to enslave us, and to murder us if we don't comply.
"renege on your obligation to others"
We have no obligations to looting scum, slave drivers, and jackbooted thugs.
"and, most of all, lose out on all the benefits of community."
Your community has nothing to offer to us. You're intellectually, morally, and financially bankrupt. Get out of the way. Drop dead.
"Why do you waste your life so?"
Et tu, brute?
"Step out into the warmth of the sun, into the warmth of community and LIVE."
We are in the sunlight. It is you that is benighted. We neither need nor want the fug of your community. We are alive. You are mindless, lifeless zombies.
"Life's too short to be stuck in an invented narrative."
Life's too short to be stuck in your dream, uh, nightmare world. Life's too short to be your slave.
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