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Re: e-vanguard, now exclusive to TDARCOS base by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/24/2018, 6:53pm PDT
Cretinous Reprobate wrote:

Still, I'd like to hear Paul's view of the character given his own philosophical slant since he mentioned Rand.

My understanding is that The Locust, although positioned to us as corrupt or villainous, should be considered more than halfway a hero by objectivist standards.

No, the Locust is not a hero at all.

The whole point of The Locust - and his name - is to point out something that is the worst of the worst, a pure consumer with no redeeming characteristics except by accident, e.g. he forces a plane to crash because he's insured 90% of the 400 passengers and will collect over $200 million but coincidentally one of the passengers killed on the plane was a man who was about to blow up a series of apartment buildings to kill 1,685 people.

Consider The Locust to be the retail quantity, individual user of anything to get anything he wants, as compared to Star Trek's The Borg to be the same thing on hyper-steroids, and they commit evil in wholesale quantities by hundreds, thousands, millions or billions of drones.
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Misunderstanding The Locust by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/24/2018, 10:00am PDT NEW
    Do you see The Locust as objectivist or anti-objectivist? NT by Cretinous Reprobate 06/24/2018, 1:18pm PDT NEW
        Anti. Only parasites would require deus ex machina shortcuts to succeed. NT by The Sweat of My Brow 06/24/2018, 1:38pm PDT NEW
            But I assume The Locust is following rational self-interest NT by in the Randian sense? 06/24/2018, 2:00pm PDT NEW
                Sounds more like base human desire and degeneracy. by The Sweat of My Brow 06/24/2018, 2:43pm PDT NEW
                    e-vanguard, now exclusive to TDARCOS base by Cretinous Reprobate 06/24/2018, 5:39pm PDT NEW
                        Re: e-vanguard, now exclusive to TDARCOS base by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/24/2018, 6:53pm PDT NEW
                    Re: Sounds more like base human desire and degeneracy. by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/24/2018, 6:38pm PDT NEW
            Having an irresistible system by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/24/2018, 6:10pm PDT NEW
                What if you wrote a book so irresistible everybody had to by read it? 06/25/2018, 6:48am PDT NEW
 
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