My latest at PJMedia VIP. If nothing is inherently sacred then anything you can get away with is permissible. The only thing that superior people have to fear is lacking the nerve to squash the bugs. Or is it?
The Return of Rodion Raskolnikov
When Feodor Dostoevsky wrote the novel “Crime and Punishment” in 1866 to describe a world made possible by Russian nihilism, he was describing not only a literary character, Rodion Raskolnikov, but a whole future philosophical point of view. Raskolnikov, who regards himself as a well-educated and superior but powerless person, asks himself: “Why not kill a wretched and ‘useless’ old moneylender to alleviate human misery?”