I don't think it means anything that she'd hate you. She hated everyone who didn't give her money.

You've really got step up your troll game.

nani?

So, tell me, what does it feel like to be a fucking moron?

I imagine you've been doing it a while.

Wow, that was the most Objectivist take down I've seen in awhile.

Savage

Call me Ka-Zar, mother fucker.

lol

Man almost as Brutal as when Ayn Rand was receiving social security

That she paid for her entire career through taxation.

I don't like this system either, but god damn if SS is still around when I'm old, I'm gonna take it. I paid into it my entire life.

Can't take the Whiteknight out of the hypocrite objectivist I guess

Hypocrite? What are you even talking about. All I've done is talk shit about how terrible of an author I think she was, and I even pointed out some of her hypocrisies myself. How am I Whiteknighting?

The King in YellowToday at 5:57 PM
I don't think that though. I do my best to be objective, though I know that's not always possible. I'm human, I have biases like everyone else.

I doubt this guy has even read Loki, let alone Rand

By my own admission, I read Atlas Shrugged, and I wasn't crazy about it. I own Peikoff's book on Objectivism. I never read any of her other books, though I've listened to hours of her talks over the years.

She's not my idol. I don't worship her. She was a very flawed human being, like we all are.

On the flip side, most of us dont make an "objective" moral philosophy to validate our bad decisions :^)

Just so we're clear (not baiting, just need context), you're implying that she created objectivism to validate her bad choices?

*has literally never bought one of her books*

You're so cute.

I think she came up with a philosophy based on suggesting that her thought process was not merely acceptable but the objective be-all and end-all, and this necessarily includes her faults

I can see how one could come to that conclusion.

A friend of mine and I have talked about this. He's gay, and sometimes he has a hard time squaring his respect for her ideas with her rhetoric about gays.

I mentioned above, she was pretty anti-gay, which I don't think jives with one of her core ideals.

Though, to be fair, she never advocated for the use force of government to force homosexuals to stop being gay, or anything like that, so there was at least some consistency to it.

You should read The Fountain~~head~~ Pen

I loved when Neil Degrasse Tyson went from icon of the left to #Metooed

When did that happen?

You know @Beemann, I probably should. Shrugged was so hard to get through though, it scared me off her fiction for a good long time.

honestly I'd recommend reading other philosophers. You'll get a handle on her ideas after reading AS

I dabbled in other philosophies over the years. Existential Nihilism was fun when I was an edgelord in my early 20's.

Objectivism was the one that resonated with me the most. I didn't start reading about it until I was 26 or 27, and I'm glad I found it in the later half of my twenties.

If you were an edgelord you probably missed the point

HHMMM YES I LOVE TO DABBLE IN PHILOSOPHIES https://t1.rbxcdn.com/f6144375eb29c8e91d712dec02224044

Of Nihilism?

Well I mean for starters you've combined two ideas into one, but also yes

If you think nihilism gives you the opportunity to simply be an edgelord, rather than someone who has taken responsibility for the formation of their own morals and values, then you've ultimately failed the test

Existentialism isn't Nihilistic either necessarily

If your maint takeaway from reading any Exitsentialist writers was Nihilism you must've read the Stranger and nothing else.