[dubyagee]

You're wrong. Stalin and Mao were quite rational and logical and clear-headed (much more than most people) and considered themselves overwhelming successes. It just didn't matter to them that they wiped out tens of millinos of people; it made rational sense for them to do such to reach their goals. That we consider wiping out so many people evil comes from somewhere else.

Yes, and I can see in the above statement where someone with the beliefs of Rand could commit those murders. In their eyes, it would be to their benefit and their profit if the world they lived in inhabited only those who thought like they did.

[yendu bwam]

In their eyes, it would be to their benefit and their profit if the world they lived in inhabited only those who thought like they did.

Right. Five adults and five children are stranded on an island with only two days rations. It's perfectly rational for the adults to overpower the children and murder them and take their share of food in the hopes of being saved. Rationality does not make that a 'good' act (for most people!).

[lelio]

Yes, and I can see in the above statement where someone with the beliefs of Rand could commit those murders.
No that person couldn't: they would be forcing themselves on others by taking their life for their own good.