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 ucbvax!Cory:cc-18 (UUCP) Cory.cc-18@Berkeley (ARPA)