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  1. No Tom...THAT attitude you refer to is fundamentally where objectivism fails. Ayn Rand's entire philosophy falls apart on that one scene. The guard was merely a fool, ignorant and a hinderance to Dagny. But that does not justify his cold blooded killing. A philosophy that justifies killing those who stand in the way of one's own philosophical or ideological position is fundamentally flawed. Taken to its extreme - it is the logic of pure Nazism. Create a scapegoat, devalue them to such a degree that their life is expendable, and you have the underlying counter-logic of the holocaust. What was it Christ said, "love thine enemies"? I don't remember him saying anything about kill those who get in your way. Ayn Rand's philosophy is in every way anti-Christian. It is not surprising that she is the philosophical darling of the political Right. It is in fact reminiscent of the first law of Satanism. i.e - "Do unto others before they do unto you". This is also the logic of the Bush Administration. How ironic that they were re-elected largely with the support of the Christian fundamentalist twits of our Bible belt who supported the carnage in Iraq. They simply don't see the hypocrisy of supporting the carnage on hand, and espousing Christian values on the other.
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