[gunderson]

You have too much taste for Atlas Shrugged because of your illustrious bloodline?

If reading Atlas Shrugged is too much work for your taste, then I think the actual ideas contained in it would surely be quite distasteful to you, but I guess the world will never know.

[menloparkbum]

Yes, I do have too much taste to work through Atlas Shrugged, and I attribute this at least partially to good parenting. It always saddens me to read about good minds softened by the writings of Ayn Rand, and I shudder to think about the sorts of childhoods they must have had.

[gunderson]

Were you forced by your parents to donate your allowance to the homeless amid tears that eventually turned into self-congratulation?

What sort of "good parenting" created such a visceral aversion to Rand's philosophy? Or is it her prose style that you object to?