[IronJack]

Rand’s Humanist bent is well known and grounds for a lot of conservatives rejecting her. I find that I can take the best of her ideas and leave the rest. She can be wrong about things too, but when she’s right, she’s RIGHT.

[Raymann]

Rand was far and away not a humanist. Humanism exhorts a morality that comes from man but dependent on the collective will of man. Therefore any concept of individual rights in humanism exist solely at the behest of whatever laws men decide to right.

Rand correctly identified individual rights as part of and inseperateable from mans nature.

Only some conservatives reject Rand and as best I can tell its mostly from spite. Rands atheism was a consequence of her philosophy but she never translated her atheism into public policy. She again correctly felt it didn’t belong in politics

[higgmeister]

"that man exists for his own sake, that the pursuit of his own happiness is his highest moral purpose, that he must not sacrifice himself to others, nor sacrifice others to himself."

I feel that man cannot allow himself to be coerced or forced to sacrifice himself to others and I will meet every individual on these same terms. I as an individual, reserve the right to freely give to others as I see fit. Charitable giving must be recognized as a valid enterprise if it improves my world and those within it. As such, Socialism is the greatest evil mankind has created.

[Pelham]

Murray Rothbard's The Sociology of the Ayn Rand Cult