I present you with a series of quotes from his books, which according to the man himself:
So you know that he takes his books quite seriously, very seriously in fact, as seriously as his idol Ayn Rand treated her books!When I write, I'm presenting a view of reality in which I base what I do on the ultimate value, which is life.
When you buy a book, you are spending money to buy it. You must decide if the book is worth that amount of money. The answer is based on everything that you could spend your money on, how much money you have, everything available to you, what you need to spend the money on, and a number of other things. Then you may decide "yes I want to buy this book."
But you are doing something far more valuable -in the realm of thinking, in the realm of ideas, in the realm of values. Those things are measurable, too. They are measured by time. That's one reason there is a sundial on the cover of this book. The gnomon that the male statue is holding casts a shadow on the sundial to tell you how much time has passed in the day -how much of your life is gone, how much is left.
So without further ado lets look at how Hippies and War Protestors should be treated:
Ah yes we got some real moral clarity there! After all the only moral thing you can do with such people is mow them down! Can't twap them with the flat of your blade, or ride through'em, nope, you got to hate them and slaughter'em! The scoundrels!Naked Empire wrote:They raced out from the long shadows of the buildings and poured around the corner. The people off at the end of the street all turned when they spotted Richard's force coming. More people--men and women from the city--surged into the street in front of the compound of buildings the soldiers had taken up as barracks and a command post. The people looked like a scraggly lot.
"No war! No war! No war!" the people shouted as Richard led the men up the street at a dead run.
"Out of the way!" Richard yelled as he closed the distance. This was no time for subtlety or discussions: the success of their attack depended in large part on speed. "Get out of the way! This is your only warning! Get out of the way or die!"
"Stop the hate! Stop the hate!" the people chanted as they locked arms.
They had no idea how much hate was raging through Richard. He drew the Sword of Truth. The wrath of its magic didn't come out with it, but he had enough of his own. He slowed to a trot.
"Move!" Richard called as he bore down on the people.
A plump, curly-haired woman took a step out from the others. Her round face was red with anger as she screamed. "Stop the hate! No war! Stop the hate! No war!"
"Move or die!" Richard yelled as he picked up speed.
The red-faced woman shook her fleshy fist at Richard and his men, leading an angry chant. "Murderers! Murderers! Murderers!"
On his way past her, gritting his teeth as he screamed with the fury of the attack begun, Richard took a powerful swing, lopping off the woman's head and upraised arm. Strings of blood and gore splashed across the faces behind her even as some still chanted their empty words. The head and loose arm tumbled through the crowd. A man mad the mistake of reaching for Richard's weapon, and took the full weight of a charging thrust.
Men behind Richard hit the line of evil's guardians with unrestrained violence. People armed only with their hatred for moral clarity fell bloodied, terribly injured, and dead. The line of people collapsed before the merciless charge. Some of the people, screaming their contempt, used their fists to attack Richard's men. They were met with swift and deadly steel.
At the realization that their defense of the Imperial Order's brutality would actually result in consequences to themselves, the crowd began scattering in fright, screaming curses back at Richard and his men.
If only Richard Rahl was in charge of crowd control eh?
But what do you do with a difficult eight year old princess?
Aaaaah, we would be lost in a land of altruistic immorality if not for the Objective Truth and Morality that Richard Rahl promotes!Wizards First Rule wrote:Princess Violet glared at him. "My mother says that Confessor Kahlan will come back and that we'll have a surprise for her the next time she comes here. I just want you to know because my mother said you'll be dead by then. My mother says I get to decide what to do to her. First, I'm going to cut off her hair. "Her hands were in fists, her face red. "Then i'm going to let all the guards rape her, every one! Then I'm going to put her in the dungeon for a few years so they'll have someone to play with! Then when I get tired of hurting her, I'll have her head chopped off and put it on a pole where I can watch it rot!"
Richard actually felt sorry for the little Princess. The sadness for her came over him in a wave. At that feeling, he was surprised to feel the thing in him that had come awake rise up.
Princess Violet squeezed her eyes shut, stuck her tongue out far as she could.
It was like a red flag.
The strength of the awakened power exploded through him.
He could feel her jaw shatter like a crystal goblet on a stone floor when his boot came up under it. The impact of the blow lifted the Princess into the air. Her own teeth severed her tongue before they, too, shattered. She landed on her back, a good distance away, trying to scream through the gushing blood.
Gentlecreatures... I give you a man who makes our Shep look like a political moderate!
Let me finish by letting the man himself speak again:
LORD! I love the American Political system, especially the more American parts of it, to quote Seinfeld "It's like walking in the Jungle, you never know what you're going to find, and you're afraid."Terry Goodkind wrote:The theme of FAITH OF THE FALLEN is the role of free will in man’s existence — the abstract concept of the importance of freedom to man’s existence. The plot is the battle for individual liberty in a altruistic-driven collectivist society. The concretes of Richard’s struggle make the abstract concept understandable and clear. (And because it is so clear it enrages those who want to cloud the issue so as to champion altruism; the naked hate they exhibit and vicious methods they use only go to prove the book’s point that altruism breeds force and brutality and produces only suffering.)
Yes he just condemned ALTRUISM, and why? Because he's an Objectivist, or rather he's a Randite, a follower of the Ugly Dwarf in Drag who felt smoking was more rational than not, that Mickey Spillane was a better writer than Shakespeare, and that all the worlds troubles come from people being too altruistic and keen to sacrifice themselves for the benefit of others...
Oh yes, that's what's wrong with the world, people thinking too little of themselves, and too much of others...
For links to more quotes you can always check out The Goodkind Parodies but you know it got to be difficult to parody this.
And if you want a more elaborate description of this philosophy then here's John Galts speech.
) beliefs. Altruism is t3h b@D!!1! 
