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Wow, talk about an ironic quote:

>"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality." —Ayn Rand

Well that just about sums up the Libertarian mindset and its unintended, unavoidable consequences, doesn't it?

In conjunction with the conclusions of the paper, it's not very flattering to Ayn Rand's or her followers' cognitive abilities.

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The demons that apparently haunt you in academic papers are created by yourself with such a comment.

Is that a fancy way of admitting you're an Ayn Rand follower, and you think her own words and the consequences of believing in her don't ironically apply to you too, because you're one of the clever ones who's always right, while everybody else is an idiot? Thanks for illustrating my point so unwittingly with such high dudgeon and low evidence or rational argument, while reinforcing the Libertarian personality stereotype so eloquently. You dramatically demonstrated precisely what I meant.

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