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Have you read Rand?
Relying on one's own abilities is not the objection people who want strong societies are making against Rand. She was operating on a false premise. Humans are not just rational or irrational ... they are are also social animals.
Think Humanism v. Objectivism ... her story is justifying greed at all cost to others and making a case for selfishness. The stories Hubbard wrote or Rand wrote were simply stories written by megalomaniacs.
Much like Rand, I prefer a society of self-sufficient people as opposed to a society that would attempt to force self-sufficient people to bend to it's will for the purpose of conformity. In short, I find the "government" of Rand's novels to be much greedier that the independent people...with the added despicable actions of enacting stupid, short-sighted laws.