Objectivism is for the strong willed
While Ayn Rand had very strong views, she was always rational. She was integral with her observations. She could give proper logical explanations leading from her observations to the stance she took, and from the stance to her actions. (Although this sounds simple it really is not). This led her to say that all those who did not agree with her must be irrational. The point is this : what happens when you see a point she misses. She might call you irrational, the whole world might call you irrational/wrong. But, what matters is that you know you are not.
I have 2 points to make here :-
1) Ayn Rand confesses that she was not a good psychologist. So when she made villians out of the irrational people, calling them evil, it induces a tendancy to conform to her views in the weak willed/unintelligent reader. And so Ayn Rand, unknowingly, ends up doing more harm than good for such people. Unfortunate.
2) It is imperative on rational individuals to hold their views/actions which are based on sound reasoning and observations as a line in stone. Unchanging, except when you see that your observations were inaccurate.
3) If you can prove that someone has been irrational or has malintent... then he/she deserves no respect.
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i do not agree with the third point of yours. a person may have been irrational by default ie because he simply failed to perceive a situation completely.
such a person does deserve some respect as he has formed his own views and is sticking by them as he believes them to be rational.
on the other hand if he continues to stick to them even when his mistake is explained to him without offering a valid arguement or such like then, yeah your 3rd point still holds.
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