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The Many Appetites for Cruelty
Edward Cline, Family Security Matters
Atlas Shrugged |
Objectivist author |
Cruelty is intimately linked to sadism. A sadist is chiefly a nihilist. Like the villain James Taggart in Atlas Shrugged, who yells, “I want to break him! I want to hear him scream!” he wishes to erase the good so that the evil can exist unidentified as such and unopposed.
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