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    First, I am not (nor will I ever have the philosophical hubris to consider myself) an objectivist. Keep this in mind if anything is slightly off the mark. All this talk about makes me think you must have missed 75% of the audio logs in the game, or at least not bothered listening to and comprehending most of them. I can think of a few of his actions off the top of my head that would defy this characterization immediately: - - - - - - - I also think this perception of ADAM as inherently evil is entirely based on the current superstitious sense of "purity" we have re: genes and genetics, now that the human genome has been mapped and we better (but not nearly well enough) understand our biological core. Before, the rhetoric was "one drop of Negro blood". In the game, the evil existed in the application of ADAM and plasmids, an X factor, in an environment that was the least prone to collectivized discretion and containment. In a theoretical world where self is the only consideration, such as Rapture was in the game, any advantage one could attain over one's "fellow man" exclusively through self-improvement is rewarded, and since the concept of consequence is such an individualized entity in objectivist theory (from my understanding), Rapture's constantly adversarial population had no means of conceptualizing danger based on another person's irregular reaction to splicing, since it was "the other guy's problem". Intelligence regarding gene theory, even in a highly scientific environment such as Rapture, was surely primitive at best in the time period the game is set. Couple this with the marketing of Gatherer Gardens, human instinct and susceptibility to poor judgment in the name of competitive spirit, and you have a feckless, ready-made eugenics society, which is also touched on in-game. I've said enough for now. I'm not the 100-page speech type, I'm afraid, so perhaps more will be forthcoming later. I'd be interested to hear comments.
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