[CarolinaGuitarman]

" Chambers was a brilliant man who nailed Ayn Rand's work to the wall. Read for yourself.. And Rand herself was a fraud: you cannot use reason, applied to nature, and get her results."

His critique is asinine. Read it already.

"Except, I suppose, her well-documented tendency to excommunicate any and all dissenters from her presence -- a tendency which in other circumstances might have led to more than simple dismissal."

This is the same as advocating gas chambers? You have a way with redefining words.

"He was, rather, commenting on her "dictatorial tone," which is a correct observation. Intellectual honesty should compel you to read his comment in context."

It's what he meant. Read it already.

" LOL! Except that they applied his philosophy, and that both he and Hitler died insane."

1) If someone distorted your work for ill gain, you are responsible? They Misapplied his philosophy to be something he was against. He hated antisemitism and he hated nationalism. The work they most used was *The Will to Power*, which Nietzsche didn't even authorize to be published. It was put together by his sister from his notebooks.

2) If someone dies in the same way you did, you are responsible for their actions?

[r9etb]

2) If someone dies in the same way you did, you are responsible for their actions?

And if someone perverts (your word) an idea to their own ends, is the idea itself to blame?

I guess you've just shot down any point you may have thought you were making.