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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 25
      Replying to @ChristieSmythe

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      4 replies 3 retweets 74 likes
    2. Christie Smythe‏Verified account @ChristieSmythe Jan 25
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      "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?"

      4 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 25
      Replying to @ChristieSmythe

      Yeah and for a normal person the answer to that question is no not really

      2 replies 1 retweet 149 likes
    4. Christie Smythe‏Verified account @ChristieSmythe Jan 25
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      I don't think we should ever completely slam the door on people. Understanding is important, even when they do something terrible. Flippant remarks might feel satisfying, but they are ultimately unhelpful.

      6 replies 1 retweet 6 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 25
      Replying to @ChristieSmythe

      That's not what she said, she literally just takes it for granted that because she's decided he's the "bright, exceptional" kind of person, then any of his moral failures are failures of society, and the greater said failure, the greater society's failure Which is fucking insane

      2 replies 3 retweets 170 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 25
      Replying to @arthur_affect @ChristieSmythe

      Like, specifically because he's "intelligent" and "exceptional", this means it can't possibly be his own moral failing that he kidnapped and murdered a girl It's society's fault for not giving him sufficient scope to express his genius and keep him from getting bored

      3 replies 2 retweets 126 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 25
      Replying to @arthur_affect @ChristieSmythe

      This is a diseased point of view, especially because the definition of "intelligent" and "exceptional" is so nebulous -- it's something people just decide to label someone as because they like the guy But of course, you probably know that, or will soon

      1 reply 2 retweets 115 likes
    8. Zendervai‏ @Zendervai Jan 25
      Replying to @arthur_affect @ChristieSmythe

      Note that this sort of thing isn't said about people with like, kleptomania or people of colour in general. There's a disturbing trend to try and excuse murderers and serial killers, when they're reasonably articulate passably attractive white men.

      2 replies 0 retweets 93 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 25
      Replying to @Zendervai @ChristieSmythe

      Lol that's what gets me about this, Ayn Rand didn't *generally* sympathize with criminals or think that people all deserve second chances Quite the opposite, she was wholeheartedly in favor of crumpling up huge swathes of the population and throwing them away

      2 replies 4 retweets 147 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 25
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Zendervai @ChristieSmythe

      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

      3 replies 3 retweets 126 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 25
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Zendervai @ChristieSmythe

      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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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 25
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Zendervai @ChristieSmythe

          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

          5 replies 1 retweet 69 likes
        3. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein Jan 25
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Zendervai @ChristieSmythe

          There's a sense where the most boring things to some people are the most obvious; "don't murder children" for example. So there's a perverse need to show that you aren't bound by those rules.

          1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes
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        2. Chelsea Gaither has books!‏ @CWGaither Jan 25
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Zendervai @ChristieSmythe

          That really is the best summary of Rand's characterization skills, because oh GOD is every single "positive" character in AS a raging dumpster fire, and Rand sure did seem to have a lot of trouble tracking what defined good and not good between one scene and the next.

          1 reply 1 retweet 20 likes
        3. Chelsea Gaither has books!‏ @CWGaither Jan 25
          Replying to @CWGaither @arthur_affect and

          I think my "favorite" examples of this are the contrast between Dagny's relations with D'Anconia/Hank Rearden/John Galt and James Taggart's relationships with Cheryl/Mrs. Rearden. In Dagny it's a statement of power and her nobility. In James it's terrible + Cheryl's suicide.

          2 replies 1 retweet 11 likes
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