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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6695715" data-attributes="member: 4937">First, that's something of a simplification of Rand's moral philosophy, as Rand would not have claimed greed is good.  Indeed, Rand very much would have agreed with the outline I gave on the evils of Greed in the original essay.  Rand's self-motivated persons had no use for acquisition as an end goal, and it's her villains that generally have this trait.   A long discussion of this would be tangential to the essay and probably overly political, but feel free to read the Cliff notes version of either Atlas Shrugged or The Fountainhead for the detailsSecond, even so, I don't and don't feel compelled to equate Objectivism as a good.  Indeed, my suspicion us that you are not in fact doing so either, but if you are intending to make your pictorial assertion of your own belief that Objectivism is Good, something I doubt simply because you seem to know very little about it, then I'm prepared to discuss that as well.Third, while I have a great deal of empathy with Rand regarding the life circumstances that led her to advance Objectivism as good and altruism as Evil, I personally feel that she was terribly confused.  Understanding why she would feel compelled to justify a set of beliefs is not the same as agreeing with them, nor is it the same as saying that I understand her logic (or rather, in this case, I do understand her logic and her logic is flawed).</blockquote>