No one is saying A is not A because Rand was a control freak. What we’re saying is that a lot of the superstructure of her philosophy supposedly founded on ‘A is A’ is rubbish and the most obvious example is her personal life; it’s a reductio. ‘Rand presumably was the person with the best understanding of Randianism, and these absurd actions & statements reflect her understanding; QED, Randianism is absurd.’
No one is saying A is not A because Rand was a control freak. What we’re saying is that a lot of the superstructure of her philosophy supposedly founded on ‘A is A’ is rubbish and the most obvious example is her personal life; it’s a reductio. ‘Rand presumably was the person with the best understanding of Randianism, and these absurd actions & statements reflect her understanding; QED, Randianism is absurd.’