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gothiclg OP t1_j26kps2 wrote

Reply to comment by Mr_B_Gone in Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand by gothiclg

I wouldn’t say I ever disagreed with her views enough for it to totally pull me out, even where I disagreed. One big thing in Atlas Shrugged is her disinterest in anything that might be considered for the social good, any programs that claim the greater good even if they restrict a little capitalism is bad. It’s when you combine that opinion with “my fellow man should be allowed to die if they can’t afford life’s basic necessities like food, water, and shelter” that feels like it takes it too far. That was most of the politics in this one, too. Not just a viewpoint that opposed my own but opposed them to a very very dangerous societal extreme that she seemed to want to normalize

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