I loath Ayn Rand (but continue to reread her books) discussion

I really enjoy Ayn Rand's writing. It is mysteriously lulling to have her describe a world in which one need never apologize for one's lack of knowledge or lack of compassion (and that good people necessarily already have both). It answers the overwhelmed student of post-modernism - don't bother feeling for others, you are free, and moral in your freedom.
The unfortunate problem with Ayn Rand's philosophy of objectivism in her novels (there are plenty of problems in her philosophical writings, and the reason I love her novels is that her real thoughts sneak out through her characters) is that it only suits people who are realtively free to begin with (objectivists and libertarians are such good bedmates). If you are not strong to begin with - you don't deserve help, you are evil (all her evil characters are weak...). Rand indicates that laziness cannot be pared with any form of goodness. That is ridiculous - it's just not true that people are able and have lots of energy because they are good. It makes the logical end that lazy and inable people are evil - and although she doesn't have them be destroyed( i find it interesting she never goes futher and gives objectivists the perogative to finish them off themselves) they conviently destroy themselves to proove her point. She gives handicapped children in one scene all the attributes of animals... I think, in fact we are all sometimes lazy, sometimes altruistic, sometimes unyielding and strong and that the mixture helps us respond morally to very different situations. You're not bad because you're lazy and you're not good because you're able (try to write that proof using logic...)The lack of the complecations in her characters are written to suit her purpose and are not studies of how people act. She never challenges herself, she is all Prescription in her characters, and no writing from life (pretty useless philosophically). Her Roarks, DOminiques, and Wynans remind me of recovering alcoholics - they are so afraid to make complicated deciscions, that they reject complications as a moral problem, instead of a reality.

Rand can't kill off the lazy. Who would be left for the objectivist to plunder?