I was running through some old Portal 2 quotes in my head and realized that it Cave Johnson were a real person, people would absolutely hate him.

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    The main characters of ‘Friends’, perhaps excluding Phoebe Buffay. Once you try to figure out their morals, it’s baffling how they can be considered even half decent people.

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    Handsome Jack. Hilarious, beloved villain but anyone would want to punch his smug face in if they actually met him.

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    Barney Stinson is a creep whose actions border on rape and it was hinted he may have even been involved in human trafficking at one point

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      What’s wrong with having your adventure buddy randomly stop, stare into space and ask the most obvious questions and act like she got an answer?

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      Jesus would probably get on my nerves.

      He never called people by their names and gave them weird nicknames and spoke in riddles like a guy who fried his brain on weed and LSD in college during an ethics class.

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      People would hate the real time moralising, but would love free wine and would be amazed by his party tricks, like walking on water. That was pretty cool!

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    Willy Wonka may not be hated, but he would definitely be vilified. There is no way a candy maker who refused to allow inspectors into his factory would be allowed to sell candy to the general public.

    Plus, under the current administration, ICE would break in and forcibly deport (kidnap) all the Ommpa Loompas.

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      Wonka is arguably guilty of slavery and even if he didn’t kill four kids, he at least traumatized four kids. And he laid off all his workers, leading some of them to become impoverished.

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      Plus, under the current administration, ICE would break in and forcibly deport (kidnap) all the Ommpa Loompas.

      Would trump deport them for not being white, save them for being orange, or leave them there because they’re already slaves?

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    Amos Burton from The Expanse. Fans love him but he is a deeply damaged, disturbed, violent individual with no sense of right or wrong. At one point in the books, he looks at somebody and thinks he may have to kill them. The idea doesn’t bother him. He doesn’t get pleasure from it. But they’re in his way so he’ll do it.

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      What made me like Amos Burton (from the series, still have to read the book) is that he is self aware enough to know this about himself, and intelligent enough to understand it as a shortcoming in many situations.

      He’s a man where some part of him wants to do good, even be used for good, but doesn’t know how. But he recognises good people, and anchors himself to those he believes can use him for good.

      That somehow makes him smarter than most people in the series… Or in real life, for that matter.

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      Amos is self aware though. He knows he was born without a moral compass and allows Naomi, who he knows is good, to give him direction. He trusts that her decisions will keep him from crossing a line that he knows is there but he can’t see himself.

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        True, he latches on to people he thinks are righteous, first Naomi and then Holden, and uses them as his moral compass. But when they are not around, he beats people up and kills then as his go to reaction to a threat and he has no remorse over doing it. As Naomi tells Holden about him, He is a monster. He doesn’t want to be a monster, but he is one.

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    Sheogorath from elder scrolls is a fan favorite, but I’d hazard to say no one wants to live in a universe with a cheese obsessed mad god that regularly dicks with humans for fun.

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      Sheohorath gets pretty fucking dark.

      At that same moment, a young woman nearby commented wistfully to herself, “The sounds of the birds are so beautiful.”

      Sheogorath silently agreed with her. Mortals could not make the beautiful and inspired calls of birds. Their voices were wretched and mundane. He could not change the nature of mortals, for that was the purview of other Daedric Princes. However, he could give them tools to make beautiful sounds.

      Sheogorath took hold of the petulant woman and ripped her asunder. From her tendons he made lutes. From her skull and arm bones he made a drum. From her bones he made flutes. He presented these gifts to the mortals, and thus Music was born.

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        I was genuine, but given the state of the world today I think an unstable deity of madness and whimsy periodically gifting insane relics and literal mental illnesses to people probably wouldn’t even be in the top 30.

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          My biggest problem with someone like Sheogorath is that he can just create a planet sized object at will and there’s nothing anyone could do to stop him