![]() ![]() The character in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, compared to John Galt, has been noted to have been a computer in an attempt to satirize Rand's work. This makes it likely that Rand would have considered Heinlein “ultimately an altruist” and thus abhorrent to her view that the individual mattered more than the group in all circumstances and that any system of values which rejected that was oppressive. ![]() Heinlein also clearly thought very little of those who rejected such values as duty, honor, patriotism, and self-sacrifice, as seen in Starship Troopers. He also firmly endorses religion in this book, even to the point of making his protagonist into the Archangel Michael. They both believed that that only duties chosen voluntarily were really worthwhile, and that only free individuals could really choose those most worthwhile values.īeyond that, Rand was an atheist who viewed altruism as immoral, while Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land is a wholesale indictment of Rand's assertion that altruism is a fake value. ![]() The only philosophical elements that Rand shares with Heinlein is the idea of self reliance and rational self interest. ![]()
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