Statistically there should be millions of U2-mad individuals in Britain – so where are they?
They were "power-mad individuals who would never be given responsivity [sic] of buying milk in the private sector let alone running a town", while she had "confidence, a warm heart and brains".
I think that the interest of creation is special, not general, and that to create, one has to be a little mad ….that individual madness is difficult to manage now.
Watching the tragic journey of the character Nina Sayers in Black Swan, we see how the pursuit of bodily perfection and control can enchant, isolate, and drive mad an individual who is not at home in her body and who cannot see her existence outside of a mirror.
I have been called a mad person".
True, but the good consequentialist would not do as much good as the mad or bad individual would do damage, for while the mad or bad individual would make worthwhile life on this planet forever impossible, the good consequentialist would not ensure this.
It's hard to imagine that this sensitive, slightly mad, totally unique individual won't be answering the phone.
As Pinel put it, hatred, envy, jealousy, grief and remorse are all capable of driving an individual mad; which of us has not experienced these emotions, sometimes all at once?
With potential sources of devastation ranging from interplanetary impacts to unstoppable pandemics, natural mega-disasters to unnatural alien invasions, global war to individual mad geniuses, there are almost endless endgame possibilities and lots of CGI fun to be had wreaking big screen havoc.
Harris contends: 'if a mad or bad individual can destroy the world instantly by setting off a doomsday machine, then a good consequentialist can save the world as quickly by killing him' (p. 108).
