My compromise with Ayn is two fold. 1) She has some good points that what is true and what is wrong cannot be distorted just because someone wants them to be. As we know from the Book of Mormon- "wickedness never was happiness". 2) She also brings up great ideas on not using force to get your way. She completely respects man's ability to choose and think for himself.
Okay but besides these two good and valid points here is where her Objectivist philosophy fails- it objectifies people. In Atlas Shrugged she reasons that we should treat people as we do any other objects for use or to throw away (934, 942). Granted that Christ taught that if the salt loses its flavor then wherein is it good but to be thrown out, but thats where the distinction is very apparent between Christ's teachings and Ayn's. Christ taught that people are more than the objects in life and we should value the lives of others the same or even more than our own. Ayn teaches that no man should live for the sake of another man.
