[CottonBall]

I may be way off base, but I believed that Rand makes the statement that when one uses logic one can’t use feelings.

I was wondering why Dagne (I know I am missing a letter or two...) has such problems when she starts to feel anything. She and Hank both seem to supress their emotions often (even though we're only in chap 2).

If this is the case throughout the book, it's too bad. It's not that conservatives do not have feelings, but are smart enough to know when to chose to let logic lead their actions. Liberals, however, likely have no logic - at least the ones I know.

[Publius]

In later chapters, you’ll see what happens when people base all their decisions on feelings. The farther into the book you go, the more perverse it becomes.

[WV Mountain Mama]

Dagny and Hank do get to feelings later on. Personal life feelings are different than letting feelings make business decisions.

I watched my dad ever since I can remember and still today in his business. He had 45 employees (up until a few weeks ago) and dealt with customers daily. He never raised his voice no matter what the stiuation with a customer or employee. I don’t know how he did it sometimes. He would want to but he didn’t want to say or do something rash or unwise. He also took tons of notes on every call or wrote notes in the rolodex about specific people. One time some men called a conference call with my dad on something and tried to give a different date or some such. My dad said “hold on, I’ll check my call notes.” The guy said “Ah $hit, don’t do that. I know what it will say.” LOL!

The only time he was ever soft with an employee and gave them somthing against his better judgement was when they mentioned God, needing a chance, etc. He almost always had to eventually get rid of them.