re: #32 RogueOne

This poor girls father is a pitiful excuse for a human but it was he who ruined her life, not Ayn Rand. Rand believed taking care of those you love is a moral responsibility wrapped up in selfish reasons. If you love someone, like your child, then there isn’t anything you shouldn’t do to help that person. You aren’t doing it out of altruism, you’re doing it out of your own desire. (she points that out in the donahue interview)

From her Playboy ‘64 interview:

The problem with her philosophy is, what happens when the person you love is no longer convenient for you to help? If it’s all about me, then with many serious illnesses which can incapacitate people for years (strokes, comas) at some point the caregiver gets tired and the only thing keeping them going is knowing they mean something to the person they’re helping. If was just about them, they’d say screw it to washing stinky bodies and bedpans day in and day out.

Rand is full of bullshit.

And P.S. didn’t it recently come out that she secretly accepted Medicare at the end of her life?