@professor_of_hoers
Doesn’t selfishness kind of clash with loyalty

Oh wait, it’s RD. Well, that book will turn her into Derpy.

No Derpy, no! You aren’t that confused!

*interesting
 
Man, I am Mr. Typo today.

Rational self-interest is one thing, but that’s a rather mild concept compared to what Rand said. She was just nuts. Much like Freud, she brought interest to something and ended up doing good despite the fact that she was out of her mind.

@Sparrow
 
Ayn Rand, when asked in an interview (which you can find on youtube) whether or not the poor or sick or disabled deserved love and compassion her reply was “They certainly don’t deserve it.”
 
She was a rather confused and cruel woman (and in many cases later in her life was quite the hypocrite) but it can’t be denied the fact that we still discuss her works and talk about her shows something to her prowess.
 
I dislike her philosophy and I’m somewhat torn on her writing style. In some cases it’s quite good but she writes her characters in a very unrealistic way. They speak and interact less as “people” and more as straw men to either show unrealistic levels of what she considers to be “virtue” or “weakness.”
 
An interest figure/writer to dissect.

Her cutie mark looks like a muffin with a bite out of it.

Rational self interest, not selfishness (as most people understand the term)

Ayn Rand is so weird, though.  
She’s like a less depressing version of Nietzsche.  
Actually, Fluttershy reading either authors would be hilarious.

Rainbow Dash would be a Randian.
 
Selfishness the only true virtue? COUNT ME IN!

I can’t really any of them reading that book.  
Maybe Twilight by virtue of being a bookworm, but I doubt she’d agree with its message.

Maybe AJ should be the one reading it though.

I kinds liked that book.