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  1. unfunny puns that go on and on and on make me want to END my life.

    seriously people, when you get into your pun mode you all start looking and sounding like the maury povich show when he has a bunch of kids on who have tourettes syndrome and one do so something spastic or curse out loud, and then like clockwork they all start setting each other off. it’s not funny on maury, and it’s not funny here.

    *rob*

  2. OK Benson, if you want serious. My own problems with Ayn rand’s ideas:
    1) Ayn Rand’s worldview is inconsistent with being a Christian. I don’t see how someone could describe themself as Christian and subscribe to her philosophy.
    2) Whereas she aspires to rationality, her philosophical system rests on a highly subjective and emotinal version of heroic individualism.
    3) I don’t think it is possible to ascribe any moral characteristic at all to rational self-interest. It is a facet of human nature, but I think it is category error to ascribe a moral component to it.
    4) Most of these issues had been better dealt with by earlier philosophers anyway. I find her ideas to be reductionist.

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