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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Replying to @arthur_affect @financebroseph and
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @financebroseph and
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @financebroseph and
"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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And we all get together to protect ourselves from the murderers and to punish the murderers in our midst when they get caught Based on our cowardly desire to live normal boring dull lives of safety and peace that we call society That's how it fucking works, suck it up
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Replying to @arthur_affect @financebroseph and
This is the whole thing about her Nietzsche kick, that she wholly embraces the idea that *everything* we think of as "morality" is "slave morality" and "master morality" is just plain being a piece of shit asshole
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Replying to @arthur_affect @financebroseph and
Rand was powerless during the Russian Revolution, so she may have created an elaborate selfish fantasy where she would have absolute power?
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