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39 Post author: philh 05 January 2014 12:41AM

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Comment author: philh 05 January 2014 01:58:19AM *  11 points [-]

Crap, yes, that's fascist, thanks. Edited. (It's so obviously wrong now that you've pointed it out...)

Rake is actually kind of an old-fashioned word. I'm not very happy with it, but I couldn't think of one that I liked better. It's not so much willfully evil as indifferently evil: "I eat tic-tacs because I like the taste and don't care about their suffering". "Amoral" would have worked, but I wanted a noun. Possibly I should not have wanted a noun as much as I did.

Edit: I've inserted a working definition in the post.