08-22-2017, 02:03 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-22-2017, 02:08 PM by APeacefulWarrior.)
The difference is, I'm guessing you didn't spend your lifetime openly opposing programs like Medicare and SSI and claiming they'll bring about the ruin of society. There's a lot more inherent hypocrisy with Ayn Rand deciding to take government aid to pay for her medical bills than for, well, pretty much anyone else choosing to do the same. Regardless of whether she was entitled to the money in a legal sense, her accepting it was very much a reversal of the values she had so often preached.
So she's pretty much the only person I can imagine criticizing for making that decision. And even then, it's usually more in the context of demonstrating that the "collectivist" US isn't as tyrannical as she or her followers claimed it to be, specifically because Ayn Rand still got her entitlements just like everyone else despite everything she said and did to try to undermine the system.
So she's pretty much the only person I can imagine criticizing for making that decision. And even then, it's usually more in the context of demonstrating that the "collectivist" US isn't as tyrannical as she or her followers claimed it to be, specifically because Ayn Rand still got her entitlements just like everyone else despite everything she said and did to try to undermine the system.