Yes, and William Edward Hickman had no such qualities The qualities Rand found admirable in him - an overpowering sense of himself as special and set apart from the masses, a willingness to defy social norms because other people meant nothing to him - were 100% malign
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So what, she's just Nietsczhe without the grandeur?
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She's a tremendously shitty fangirl who jumped right off the slippery slope when interpreting his rants in a real life context, while Nietzsche's more respectable fans were busy arguing "He didn't mean that literally"
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Ayn Rand fuming here about the concept of trial by jury, like a cartoon supervillain "Judged by a jury of my peers? I HAVE no peers" Who am I to judge that Hickman is guilty? JFC I'm someone who didn't murder a child and he's someone who did! Holy fucking shitpic.twitter.com/A7YO213lAh
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To me this reads like someone playing the devils advocate.
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I seriously doubt those "beings" had committed "worse sins".
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By working a boring 9-to-5 job and caring what their neighbors think and being a slave to current political fashions and so forth they'd done worse than kidnap and murder a little girl, they'd murdered their OWN SOULS
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