She did not have a crush on a murderer. She made a lot of complex notes on him, some positive and many negative. It digusts me how people oversimplify these things in the name of virtue signaling.
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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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This is, of course, not an uncommon view -- A Clockwork Orange flirted with this point of view (and Burgess disowned the film adaptation because he felt it wholeheartedly embraced it) The movie Natural Born Killers takes it as far as it can go Ugly, nasty, regrettable shit
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All of her main characters are evil, so that checks out. Roark blows up a building designed for low-income housing so his precious "vision" isn't "ruined."
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Hickman wasn't actually smart, even. Rand clearly just assumed that anyone with sufficiently angular cheekbones and a monstrous lack of empathy must be intelligent.
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