QUOTE(Peter Damian @ Mon 12th January 2009, 9:48am)
The main question to be deliberated, which has been raging on the Rand talk page, is whether Rand should be considered a genuine philosopher (as opposed to amateur philosopher, novelist-philosopher, commercially successful writer who had philosophical ideas &c).
How are the mediation committee going to decide this?
Easy - by using a sliding scale, based on votes made by the woman Rand's many fans, and enemies too. For instance........
Genuine Philosopher? : 0.003 / 10
Amateur Philosopher? : 0.102 / 10
Novelist Philosopher? : 0.185 / 10
Commercially Successful Writer Who Had Philosophical Ideas &c? : 1.002 / 10
Bad Writer With Loonie Semi-Philosophical Ideas? : 11.999 / 10
Etc., etc., etc. I have a good feeling about this idea, should it be taken up by those Wikipedia types, as I'm confident that the result will be a victory for common-sense and decency, i.e. a much-shortened
Ayn Rand article along the lines of "
Ayn Rand was a loonie-bird writer of utter shite with the philosophical skills of a sack of rancid monkey-spunk. It should be noted that her supposed supporters have never actually managed to finish (Hey! Or even start!) the God-awful 'Atlas Shrugged'. Especially our own, beloved Jimbo."