From: Phil Osborn (philosborn2001@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Jun 15 2002 - 13:58:44 MDT
I had a roomie in my frosh year at UGA (BTW, recent
article in the Register discussed the problem that UGA
has been having with the perpetual students. Athens,
GA, is such a great party town - like 3/4 of the
population is students or UGA personnel - that noone
wants to leave. So, they just keep going back for
more advanced degrees in order to hang out. Really a
great place - I often think I should've stuck around.)
who I convinced to read "Atlas Shrugged," after which
he declared that Rand was a murderer! "What do you
mean?" asked I, in shock.
He said that she was a murderer because she killed all
those people in the novel - the ones on the train, the
ones killed by the sonic disruptor, etc. I pointed
out that these "people" were fictional characters in a
novel. He said that this didn't matter, as she had
presented the novel as an idealized depiction of
reality. Therefore, she felt that these people had to
or should die. She was wrong about that (that they
deserved to die), and so she was just as much a
murderer - just failing the opportunity in real life -
as Adolf Hitler.
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