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	[quote name="Ice Cream Jonsey"][quote name="Bananadine"]I tried to follow up on this, since I recently read Atlas Shrugged and Objectivists now qualify as the kind of crazy people I am fascinated by. I signed up at The Atlasphere (as Jonathan Frakes, photo taken from <a href="http://www.factbook.org/wikipedia/en/j/jo/jonathan_frakes.html">here</a>) and browsed a bunch of profiles but like one of the commenters on the New York Magazine article says most of these people seem pretty normal, except in that they occasionally mention how much they love Howard Roark or hate abstract impressionism, and in that most of them can spell. So, no good opportunities here for a not-especially-mean humorist of my kind. The only really weird thing I could see in the profiles I read is the implication that many people, who superficially seem far more reasonable than a person should have to be in order to discover a bunch of totally stupid things amidst the various good things in Ayn Rand's books, are nonetheless huge Rand fans.[/quote] I'm not going to read Atlas Shrugged, because there are a thousand other books I'd like to read first, and the entire objectivist argument seems to be completely retarded, unrealistic, devoid of compassion and almost exclusively held by petulant neckbeards. That being said, I've never asked this question on a gaming forum, but BioShock is an argument AGAINST objectivism, isn't it? Because a society that tried to implement it went straight to hell, and everyone involved (Andrew Ryan, the first boss who was a plastic surgeon, the child molester that appears later in the game) were demonstrably horrible people, even outside their fourth-grader's understanding of society and culture. But I thought I read at some point that Ken Levine actually subscribes to the theory of objectivism, which blew me away. I can think of no better argument as to why it would not work than the game he made. ICJ [/quote]