[BlackElk]

Ideas have consequences. In Rand's case her absolutely disordered personal life was a result of her self-worship ideas and her desire to have no strange god before herself. After all, when it comes to strange gods, who could have been stranger?

[weikel]

Living under communism has got to screw a person up a little too Russia is actually less socialist then we are now with a 13% flat tax but from what Ive heard from a few Russian friends is the people are more untrustworthy and immoral then the average American( probably a direct result of living under communism when your own family was encouraged to denounce you as disloyal).