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Ayn Rand is a ****ing awful philosopher and an even worse writer.
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Elaborate so that I might be able to give you some credit. Otherwise, you seem to be like the other million critics who critiqued her books without having read them nor understood them.
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No, it just doesn't make a moral claim.
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Exactly. That is the problem. It is just as stupid as nihilism. You never get anywhere with that idea. One has to believe in some sort of morality. One lives by a morality whether he wants to or not. He may constantly rebel against his supposed morality, but that only creates a new one. A morality is a set of rules to achieve a goal that one sets for oneself with his own reason. That is morality in its true sense. Most philosophers hold that one should run away from reality and admit there is no objective morality. However, then they hold that there is no such thing as the objective world. They hold that there is no defined right or wrong way to go through with an action. There most certainly is if one has a goal and one can judge it based on what is more rational to achieve his own interests.
You just choose to not think about the question of morality when you say, "Nope, there isn't a right or wrong in this situation." That is cowardly and you are letting reality dominate you. It is just as dumb as determinism in the sense that it forfeits one's life to reality.