Ayn Rand herself, of course, had an overpowering crush on a guy who murdered a kidhttps://twitter.com/ChristieSmythe/status/1352779265721380864 …
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"Yes, he is a monster – now. But the worse he is, the worst must be the cause that drove him to this. Isn’t it significant that a society was not able to fill the life of an exceptional, intelligent boy, to give him anything to out-balance crime in his eyes?"
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If someone has a genuinely complicated response to something, you're going to see some contradictory information and snippets that can go in either direction. It's important to take in the full context.
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Yeah, writers get fascinated by murderers and other deviants sometimes. Truman Capote? Dostoevsky?
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There are 0 steps from what she's quoting and basically everything else about the guy. Literally none.
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they have wrought vapid wretchedness in the world in fairly different ways, but i would be thrilled if neither Rand nor JKR nor any of their writings crossed my consciousness ever again
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