Because the whole fucking definition of morality is caring about other people, and the whole romantic tragedy of mobster movies like The Godfather is how their capacity to care is powerful yet stunted by their circumstances https://twitter.com/financebroseph/status/1353879111048044544 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Their circumstances? So they have to rob and murder people? Is society forcing them into it?
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Replying to @financebroseph @arthur_affect
Don't you think you're being a bit disingenuous? You said earlier that mob movies glorify bad people who also have admirable qualities. Now you're acting like the idea that these characters have admirable qualities is laughable.
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Replying to @themadkingatmey @financebroseph
He outright thinks that not giving a shit about what other people think and doing whatever you want for jollies is a more admirable trait than being pressured into doing bad things out of loyalty and love
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Replying to @arthur_affect @themadkingatmey
So, you’re saying that motivations matter in evil? It’s ok for mobsters to terrorize entire neighborhoods because they are doing it for their famiglia?
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Replying to @financebroseph @arthur_affect
I mean, it matters by degrees. A person who kills someone just because they can is more evil than someone who kills out of a sense of duty or loyalty or any damn thing. Both things are still evil but one is clearly more wicked .
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Replying to @themadkingatmey @arthur_affect
Evil is binary. If you are killing to defend your family in an emergency, that’s good. If you are killing a grocery clerk and his daughter because they didn’t pay their protection money, that’s evil...whether or not you were planning to use that money to feed the fam
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Replying to @financebroseph @themadkingatmey
Nah not really And even if this were the case, that just makes Hickman's extremely binary act of evil even more indefensible and Rand more of a wackjob
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What actual reason did Hickman have to kill the little girl It wasn't even money (the parents did pay the ransom in the end) According to Rand's analysis of his motives, it's essentially because he was bored, people didn't kiss his ass enough (he was "born to rule, not serve")
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