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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Replying to @arthur_affect @financebroseph and
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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It's controversial to say this because Nietzsche did make it into the Great Thinker canon and Rand didn't, at least partly because he really was smarter and a better writer, but yeah I mean it's hard not to look at him and just see edgelord ranting that doesn't go anywhere
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Replying to @arthur_affect @financebroseph and
I remember an Agatha Christie novel where the Big Bad expresses admiration admiration for Milton's Satan and his motto 'better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.' The heroine of the book concludes the exact opposite.
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Replying to @wfrolik @arthur_affect and
2. This was part of a larger morality code for Dame Agatha who was clearly fascinated by the things that might motivate a person to commit murder. But she *never* condoned it.
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Well, I mean Murder on the Orient Express
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