Is Ayn Rand the greatest ferengi of all time?

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Is Ayn Rand the greatest ferengi of all time?

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  2. no

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  1. Baba

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    Is Ayn Rand the greatest ferengi of all time?
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  2. RickDeckard

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    Definitely not. She was terrible at practicing what she preached. Like many who share her ideology.
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  3. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    "The Rand Nagus" has a nice ring to it...
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  4. Baba

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    Spaceturkey wants nude rand.
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  5. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    Yep.
    She supported her mooch husband, cheated on him, and collected social security.

    She was Rorschach eating Nite Owl's beans.
  6. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    I dunno if the cheating on her husband was necessarily at odds with her philosophy.

    True, she may have been in conflict with the contract of (presumed) marital monogamy. However is domestic indenture a valid transaction if the basis of law is free will? Can one voluntarily give up free agency-let alone assume control of someone else's? Or is this in the realm of "There's nothing in the rules of baseball saying an elephant can't pitch. So we're putting one in."
  7. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    If she wanted to be a swinger, she shouldn't have gotten married.

    Is that binary thinking?
    Sure.
    But binary thinking was her thing.
    Just holding her to her standard.
  8. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    Are Randians philosophically okay with exploiting tax breaks or social benefit they'd otherwise be unentitled to? I forget.

    Maybe the marriage was a form of that?
  9. T.R

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    I'd love to answer the question but I couldn't make it through "Atlas Shrugged." What a boring and monotonous piece of shit that was.

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  10. Baba

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    Even conservatives and libertarians hate the book.
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