This is a good response to Ayn Rand's philosophy of selfishness:
“Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.”
― Andrew Boyd

I do not share Rands dystopian view of humanity where people exist in stratified personalities and views as if only one is valid and the rest a burden on society. The very last thing Rand displayed was rational thought.

Anyone who has seriously read and analyzed Ayn Rand's work knows that her name cannot be seriously associated with real objectivity.

Eye rollers be damned. Objectivism as a means of understanding the world and ones place in it is incredibly compelling to me. As Ayn Rand once said “You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality”. An objective world view goes hand in hand with secular, humanist, and non-religious world views, in my opinion. Once you reject your rational mind and observational powers you very quickly devolve into a state of corruption, be it political, religious, social, mental or economic.