You can quickly discern...
..who has actually read Ayn Rand and those who simply have read the sparks/cliff notes.
Arguing in depth with men of no letters on the Zone is like Dagny getting into a heated argument with Rearden's brother about the Friends of Global Progress or getting into a protracted exchange with her brother. It shouldn't happen - it's a complete waste of her valuable time. And when it does happen, you think Dagny must be going on four sleepless nights coordinating ways to end run the looters, or is in some other way impaired.
You get what I'm saying?
Of course you do.
;-)