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I seriously don’t like your phrase “there is a reason we don't like charity”. I think Rand’s most relevant quote on charity is this: “Do not hide behind such superficialities as whether you should or should not give a dime to a beggar. That is not the issue. The issue is whether you do or do not have the right to exist without giving him that dime.” Rand would often say one shouldn’t claim giving charity as a major virtue. The implication being that she did regard it as a virtue, simply a minor or lesser one roughly speaking. You’ve effectively given voice to a false stereotype. I didn’t read beyond your first post.

On the contrary, I find that studying how she puts to use in later chapters the scaffolding she erects in the first chapter helps to understand it. Also, plowing through the book one chapter at a time means not reading the dialectic in the appendix when it would be most helpful.

Really? Off the top of my head, I came up with Up Ratatouille The Incredibles The three Toy Story movies The Avengers The first three Star Wars movies The first three Indiana Jones movies Shawshank Redemption When Harry Met Sally Superman Superman II Iron Man That's eighteen movies, and I could easily find more if I checked IMDb.