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we all know that Mr A is ditkos pet project espousing the rigid virtue of objectivism
and the question was a kid-friendly version of Mr A to get people to think about objectivism

but how would you make a kids show (either actual kids with TV-Y7 or a TV-PG aimed at the action genre) that espouses objectivist virtues
>primary lesson for the kids: the individual is something to be celebrated
>recurring theme (that kids probably wont consciously recognize): reality is something objective that can either be measured or reasoned to exist rather than something subjective
>hard mode: dont sound like a preachy blowhard like Mr A
>very hard mode: dont make its randianism obvious like Mr A
>extremely hard mode: appeal to casuals rather than cultivating a fanbase of rabid ancaps
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Mr A should fight Rorschach in Death Battle. That'd be fuckin cool.
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>>150521614
Mr A would win, easily
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>>150521614
>>150521664
Retards.
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>>150521675
You're seething lmao
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>>150521585
The real question is how do we do this with National Socialism?
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>>150521585
This Is based
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>>150521614
Death Battle is gay
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>>150521585
Rand said 'just don't call it objectivism if you're gonna tack anything on', so I suggest departing from the term.
I will preface this with the note that I've only ready like 3-4 stories that get posted here, like the one where he doesn't save the guy on the flagpole, but frankly I found Mr. A to be a 2D sock puppet looming over people to scowl and wag a finger, or "preachy blowhard" as you put it. If you want to make the character sympathetic, maybe have him struggle with living up to his own stated ideals. Having to pick over family or morals, needing co compromise on a principle or a bunch of innocents suffer, etc.
Having him loom and sermonize like the voice of God over other people's problems never did it for me. If I met someone like that in real life I'd assume he was trying to deflect from some truly freaky fetishes
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Philosophy is for normalfags and his morality is incorrect, but I like how he looks.
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>>150523437
>Philosophy is for normalfags
Lol no
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>>150521585
Explain The suicide squad and Punisher, Mr. A. A bit idealistic dontcha think.
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>>150521585
What does Mr A doing in his life?
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>>150521694
Cope thirdie
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>>150521767
Stfu fag
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>>150521585
Mr. gAy lol
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I like Ditko's autism
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>>150521585
Is he Canadian?
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>>150529921
No, that's Mr Eh
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>>150521585
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It's really fun.
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>>150530238
Mr. A? It really isn't.
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>>150521585
Do people really enjoy this shit regardless of politics? It's literally just "WORDS! WORDS! WORDS! WORDS!", it feels like his superpower is boring his enemies to dead with lectures instead of adventures
Everytime someone brings the libertarian spiderman panes /co/ goes "OMIGOSH! Stan and Dikto surely were on different sides of the political spectrum!"... No? Are you guys fucking stupid? The only thing i picture is Stan Lee saying "Dikto! Stop being a fucking spaz and wasting panels with cryptic speeches complaining about today's youth WHO ARE THE FUCKING AUDIENCE OF THIS COMIC! Just drawn him fighting the sand guy again!"
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>>150530405
I doubt it.
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>>150528824
I like his art.
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>>150530405
Why are you spazzing out?
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Step1: Be Brad Bird
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>>150524997
Uh, lol yeah. Any philosopher would spit acid and die of a heart attack if you told them what a furry was.
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>>150533554
the incredibles is very much about conventional altruism

the titular incredibles all use their power for good out of a desire to help
syndrome, who uses his powers solely for self-interest, is bad
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>>150525056
in Mr As world, the punisher is not an anti-hero, he is just a villain who is deeply mistaken but shouldnt be rescued if he ever gets into trouble
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>>150533841
>The A stands for autistic.
-Alan Moore
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>>150533620
Nah. Furfaggotry is rightfully dismissed as a type of paraphilia for shit-taste losers by any philosopher.
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>>150534496
Thanks for bolstering my point, although I’m sure you knew I’d see it that way.
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>>150521585
Unironically just do a normal classic kid's show.
>the good guys are good
>the bad guys are bad
>there's no grey area
>the bad guys get defeated and punished
>the good guys are celebrated
Simple as.
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>>150521585
is the mr.A comics actually good? I only seen videos talking about it and it mainly just talking about steve ditko
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>>150535735
Not really. The art is cool, but the stories tend to suck. All the characters are either mouthpieces or strawmen.
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>>150533620
>bizarre fetish exists, therefore all philosophy invalid
??????
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>>150535825
Yes.
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>>150521585
Honestly, it would be funny if someone started his own superhero comic where the hero kills a typical edgelord Joker style supervillain and the rest of the issue is about how there is no negative consequences. After that, that hero never kills another person ever again.
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The idea of there not being a middle line is interesting, because it would imply that someone who has done both good and evil deeds fall directly into one or the other, and then that starts to beg a lot of questions.
If someone has done an evil deed, will that exclude them from being good forever?
If not, then how much evil can one do before falling out of being good?
If someone does a single evil deed, how much good would they need to outweigh it, and not be evil?
How "evil" of an action actually constitutes labeling someone as evil?
Or how many evil actions?
Same for good.
Am I evil for littering 1 time?
How many times would I need to litter beyond that to be evil?
How much good would I need to do to outweigh the evil of my littering?
Can someone be more evil if they jaywalked once, and simply never do anything good, than some who has done a lot of good, but also raped someone?
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>>150533820
actually Syndrome is bad because he kills people
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>>150536885
Stfu
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>>150536898
or rather, it's not the act of killing that's bad, it's how he does it for sport
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>>150525056
Those are fictional stories.
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>>150533488
Because he's who Mr. A is talking about
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>>150535825
He's got a point. It's sort of like how Martin Luther was all like: "we have to respect everyone from all walks of life even if they have different beliefs than ours" until he read the Talmud then 180'd into "destroy them all."
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>>150536835
> All the facetious pilpul to try to obfuscate the nuance of the issue
You're on the evil side, Anon.
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>>150523177
youre meant to read him like an old pulp hero like the shadow. its insane how retarded /co/ is that they think mr.a is meant to be taken as a serious philosophical bible instead of pulpy action comic with a pastiche of the ideas that ditko was into
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>>150536835
ditko made a mr.a comic about if youd bother to read it. all your questions are answered by virtue ethics and youre a dumb midwit who isnt well read.
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>>150537066
> All the facetious pilpul to try to obfuscate the nuance of the issue
I'm simply asking question. If there's only good and evil, someone who's done both will have to fall in either one of them.
All you have to say is that doing any evil just makes you evil forever, and all the rest goes away.
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>>150537055
Except moral philosophy covers far more bases than "religious moral philosophy". Like you could fit furfaggotry into preference utilitarianism, for example. So no, it's completely ridiculous to say fetishes invalidate philosophy - philosophy covers all sorts of weird shit, often just saying it's "fucking evil" or "sure you do you".
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>>150521585
Oi really don't loike this character goiys
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>>150537083
There's a page where Mr. A tells former evildoer who repented that is not even gray but white.

But if you keep doing evil things whenever it is convenient, then you remain black.
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>>150521614
True
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>>150535465
If it doesn't have the retard trying to dance the line in the grays that don't exist then it's not really mr. a



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