Except that you're cherry picking points out of her positions to make your point. These sorts of simple minded reductionist arguments fail to actually convey a

Except that you're cherry picking points out of her positions to make your point. These sorts of simple minded reductionist arguments fail to actually convey any sense of the position of those they seek to caricature. Her action was consistent with her thinking as expressed around decade before her "needing it". Her actual position, from 1966: https://campus.aynrand.org/works/1966/01/01/the-question-of-scholarships/page1 https://campus.aynrand.org/works/1966/01/01/the-question-of-...