But she read genius into an impulsive reckless fool's atrocities *because they were atrocities* It was simply the fact of how vile he was that made him "special" He never once demonstrated any ability to do what others could not, only what they would not, which she conflated
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Replying to @arthur_affect @financebroseph and
For almost any normal person, including fans of mafia movies or heist movies or the like, there's nothing to admire about someone like Hickman He wasn't even a *successful* bad guy like a Scarface or an actual serial killer, he wasn't even *smart*
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Replying to @arthur_affect @financebroseph and
It takes a hugely distorted perspective to read "genius" into kidnapping a little girl because her parents trusted you and then killing her and delivering her body to her parents when collecting her ransom - *that they were willing to pay* - because you're just quirky that way
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Huh. This REALLY bothers you doesn’t it. Something tells me 23 year old Ayn Rand would be rather pleased that she has co completely got your goat. But, if you read the passage, she agreed with you, saying she was probably wrongly idealizing him in her, once again, private journal
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"Ho ho ho, I got you, I got you, successfully trolled" Yes It's deeply fucked up and it should bother anyone who hears about it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @financebroseph and
The worst thing about that passage is, in fact, Rand's contempt and fury at what, if she were on the Internet today, she'd call "virtue signaling" Her rage at all the people "piling" on to call Hickman a sick twisted fuck That normal people were proud of being normal
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Look at this shit, this totally nonsensical unhinged rant Yeah, actually, I've done a lot in my life I'm not proud of, but I've never strangled a little girl and cut up her body and delivered it to her parents And yeah, if you had to compare me to him, I AM proud of thatpic.twitter.com/6EgHXLftmS
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Replying to @arthur_affect @financebroseph and
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @financebroseph and
She thinks *everyone* in the courtroom is a worse person than the defendant because she's an edgelord shitposter of her era I'm no fan of Christianity but flipping out at the prison chaplain for trying to convert Hickman rather than Hickman for murdering a child?pic.twitter.com/d7V8yQiK3D
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Replying to @arthur_affect @financebroseph and
He did the worst thing a human being can do but none of it is as bad as Society's Hypocrisies Fuck's sake, for all my own problems with Christianity, if converting to Christianity keeps someone from murdering people then I'm all for it That is in fact the important thing
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Getting all indignant about the moral and spiritual autonomy of a monstrous piece of shit who's a danger to everyone around him Who gives a flying fuck This is why Burgess, a much smarter and better writer than Rand, ended up taking A Clockwork Orange out of print
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Replying to @arthur_affect @financebroseph and
You can make your point about human free will and moral relativism without going to the point of valorizing an actual sadistic murderer - and, by extension, dehumanizing and devaluing the people he killed (as Burgess felt the film inevitably did)
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"Yes, I am a monstrous criminal, but what are you?" Holy shit Yeah I'm an ordinary boring dull ugly fatty with poor dress sense who didn't do anything cool with his life who ISN'T A MURDERER and DOESN'T WANT TO BE MURDERED or to BE AROUND MURDERERS
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