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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She is very open about the pathological mindset here -- that she likes evil people as long as they're *smart* and *special*, and if they are smart and special then the more evil they are the more it just adds to their smartness and specialness
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Even as basic concepts like "Don't murder children" are less important to her than not being *boring* She has nothing but contempt for *boring* people, to be ordinary and dull and decent is to her infinitely worse than being "intelligent", "exceptional" and a serial killer
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I do wonder how much circularity there was in this; IME, people like Rand think that because they are special geniuses themselves, their thoughts are special genius thoughts, and so if they get horny for someone they can't help inventing a special genius rationalisation for it.
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That is, "I am enamoured by this guy (because he turns me on); there must be a reason I feel this way because I am so rational and genius; therefore, this guy must be special to be able to turn me on, because in my rational genius mind only special people can turn me on."
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