I must say, I am quite shocked at the conduct of the people posting here. There is not one single claim that is backed up in any way. It is simply not enough to assert that "Rand is bad because of X, and X is just a self evident truth", yet this is precisely the form of so many of the arguments here! That is a logical fallacy. There must be a reason WHY x is bad. For example, people have asserted that a work of fiction is bad because no one in their personal lives act like the novels' characters. Yet, they make no attempt to back why this makes it bad, just leaving it up in the air, a hanging non-sequitur. The rest of you seem perfectly fine to keep up this charade and prop up this evasion. Even if you agree with the ideas presented here, by not calling them out on their irrational form, you are giving them sanction? Don't you know how this looks? I'm sure you people would like to expect more from yourselves than this.