[CSM]

In your opinion, has the asbestos lawsuits and government intervention ever lead to the death of thousands? Could that industry of parasites be comparable to the hundreds of deaths being portrayed in the railway disaster?

[Rembrandt_fan]

'industry of parasites' sort of gives you away, but I'll bite. What do government intervention and asbestos lawsuits have to do with a hack writer's awkward attempt to paint Simon Legree mustaches on a trainload of future crash victims? Whenever Ayn Rand disciples are pressed in debate, they invariably take off on an irrelevant tangent, such as asbestos lawsuits (?) or mount an ad hominem attack on the critic, as was done earlier in this thread to Whittaker Chambers--who, by the way, was far kinder in his review than I would've been in terms of literary merit alone.