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Rearden's desire to kill teachers

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Would you have a desire to kill the teachers, or have a desire to do something about that which they teach?

First of all, I'd like you to pay special attention to SWN's pointing out that a desire to kill and an intention to kill are very different things.

He was holding a dying boy. A boy who after years of being a useless drone had just escaped the poisoned philosophy he was taught only to be murdered.

Emotions would be rather intensified by that moment.

You know, the expressions "I could wring his neck!" or "I could just KILL him for that" and so on?

So that answers that question.

Now on to "Would you have a desire to kill the teachers, or have a desire to do something about that which they teach?"

The two are not mutually exclusive.

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In 1946 Rand writes (this is from The Journals of Ayn Rand)

The basic process of a man's life goes like this: his thinking determines his desires, his desires determine his actions.

What if Rearden acted on such a desire? Was it an irrational desire? From irrational thinking?
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