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I can see why Rand being

AmericanDreamer — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 18:44:02 +0000

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I can see why Rand being drawn to the serial killer makes sense in a way. He wasn't going to let immoral collectivist things like societal conventions condemning and punishing serial murder stop him from following his inner compass. What a hero.

Serial killer groupie.

wabby — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 17:04:02 +0000

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Serial killer groupie. Awesome. Thanks for the link, Destor. Really crystallizes a few things for me.

Amazing, of course, that Rand

Michael Maiello — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 15:20:22 +0000

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Amazing, of course, that Rand goes from Dostoevsky and Nietszche who, like the later existentialists were deeply skeptical of conventional morality but were, in a deep way, very truly moral thinkers, and winds up ignorantly worshipping a serial killer. Nieztche's Overman was not a grown man who attacks defenseless little girls. You don't sacrfice your mind to write Beyond Good and Evil in defense of that.

Someone mentioned that at

tmccarthy0 — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 15:04:57 +0000

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Someone mentioned that at Gawker yesterday and I looked the guy up. Yo, that is one scary crazy dude that Ayn idolized, yikes. I think he was the model for John Galt.