Julie Kemp wrote:
Nor is the ridiculous world of Ayn Rand, where one can pretend that one's actions have no wider consequences than those other people allow them to have.
The odd thing about this bizarre and ill-educated slur is that the person who has been pushing hardest that we need to do something to deal with these particular issues is himself a 100% hardcore devotee of Ayn Rand. (That's me, in case anyone didn't know.)
I'm sure the rest of what you had to say, Julie, was relevant and important and interesting and I probably agreed with it. But you really don't know jack about Ayn Rand, so best not to say such nonsense about her in public. It's unscholarly at best, to issue snippy proclamations on a subject about which you apparently know nothing.
--Jimbo