Not being a fan of Rand or the Randians (either ancient or modern), I’m not sure how much I can comment on the foolishness of the “Objectivists” in their demand for mass murder on behalf of the state in the “defence” of “individualism.” But it seems to be the kind of thing Methodist theologian Stanley Hauerwas addressed in his 1991 book After Christendon: How the Church is to Behave if Freedom, Justice, and a Christian Nation are Bad Ideas: In effect liberals [in the classic philosophical sense] … no longer believe in the justification of liberal democracies based on the … Continue reading Objectivists and Mass Murder