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** If your boyfriend breaks up with you, don't decide that it was for the best and get over it in a healthy, mature way. Threaten to kill yourself so that he'll be forced back into a relationship with you, because your true love justifies it! It's also okay if you manipulate well-meaning people along the way, because true love justifies everything!

** And it's OK to hunt and drink the blood of endangered wildlife, because it's immoral to hunt humans.

** Also, most children's or YA books and movies about [[Fish Out of Water]] moving to rustic locales show those characters learning to overcome their snobbery and to value the local citizens they initially misjudged (Lightning ~~[[Mc Queen]]~~ in [[Cars]], Mary in [[The Secret Garden]], etc., etc.). Twilight essentially says, "You're right, Bella. Those people who have been falling all over themselves to be kind and welcoming to you as a new student in Forks ARE total losers. I mean, they try and include you? They ask you to PROM? You are too special for this, and only need to be considerate of equally special people. Like vampires."

** Also, most children's or YA books and movies about [[Fish Out of Water]] moving to rustic locales show those characters learning to overcome their snobbery and to value the local citizens they initially misjudged (Lightning McQueen in [[Cars]], Mary in [[The Secret Garden]], etc., etc.). Twilight essentially says, "You're right, Bella. Those people who have been falling all over themselves to be kind and welcoming to you as a new student in Forks ARE total losers. I mean, they try and include you? They ask you to PROM? You are too special for this, and only need to be considerate of equally special people. Like vampires."

* The ''[[Sword of Truth]]'' series has some pretty screwy morals, especially in the eighth book, ''Naked Empire'': {{spoiler|Killing and [[Cold-Blooded Torture|torture]] are evil if the Bad Guys do them, but they're okay if the Good Guys do them -- because, by being Bad Guys, they brought it upon themselves.}}

** Over the course of the series, Goodkind slowly works his way from formula fantasy to [[Author Tract|Objectivist philosophizing]]. This culminates with ''Faith of the Fallen'', which is, in large part, a re-writing of [[Ayn Rand|Ayn Rand's]] ''[[The Fountainhead]]''. From that book onward, the characters' morals take on a distinctly Objectivist tone, with the good guys becoming Objectivist heroes bordering on [[Knight Templar|Knights Templar]] and the bad guys being collectivists and/or pacifists.