Re: Paul Ryan and his ideas from Ayn Rand
Strawman. I was dismissing it.
It's what I was saying, when you brought up your strawman:
You say "if everyone was also stupid." I say that Ayn Rand assumed in her novels that almost everyone is - to use your word - "stupid". And she follows that to the conclusion that they will ultimately destroy society i.e. the message of Atlas Shrugged. Her proposed solution to this is to remove the power of government. Government that, may I remind you, was founded because people were doing what they thought was best for themselves. Objectivism can not exist as an ideal, because it creates its own opposite when applied beyond a select elitist group.
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