Ayn Rand was the most dangerous thing to ever come out of the Soviet Union. If her ideas were to be adopted, this country would collapse within less than five years. Heinlein was better: "Morals — all correct moral laws — derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level." vs... whatever Rand meant by this: "The army of a free country has a great responsibility: the right to use force, but not as an instrument of compulsion and brute conquest — as the armies of other countries have done in their histories — only as an instrument of a free nation's self-defense, which means: the defense of a man's individual rights. The principle of using force only in retaliation against those who initiate its use, is the principle of subordinating might to right. The highest integrity and sense of honor are required for such a task. No other army in the world has achieved it. You have. "