Nathaniel and Barbara Branden wrote a book on Ayn Rand (Who Is Ayn Rand?). On Page 26 they quote Rand as offering that it is only the concept of life that makes value possible, and that only to a living entity are the ideas of good and evil a possibility. I agree wholeheartedly.
Intelligent creatures with a soul are recruited from birth to start life as living angels or living demons, and when they die, they will join the ranks of immortal angels--the Good Spirits--or join uup with the immortal demons--the Evil Spirits.
To have lived biologically is to be accompanied by a rational mind and lively soul with a guardian demon on one shoulder and a guardian angel on the right shoulder. This entire existential reality is fraught with value judgements and value consequences, both good and evil, some favorable to the person, and some injurious to her soul.
Rand espouses that a rational morality is possible and that can be logically derived from facts. She is correct by and large.
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