From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npois!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:CAD:ESVAX:Cory:cc-18
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Re: Ayn Rand
Article-I.D.: ucbcory.774
Posted: Mon Jun 21 00:03:52 1982
Received: Thu Jun 24 01:21:02 1982
Reply-To: -18

"Ayn Rand championed selfishness to the exclusion of others.  There
is a great difference between making sure you arent victimized by
society, and turning around and being guilty of the same thing individually."

I defy utcsstat!wagner to point to an instance of any of Rand's
characters engaging in the implied behavior (victimizing society);
with the exception of "Penthouse Legend" (aka "Night of January 16th"),
in whose forward she explicitly states she disapproves of the hero's
actions, but seeks to depict a metaphysical sense of life.

As I recall, in all of Rand's novels, ALL the major characters fell
in love, good and bad.  This is the "exclusion of others"?

John Galt lives!

Michael Chastain
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