cthia wrote:Jiminy Crickets! Give up the ghost man! It is clear even if you take it out of context. Taken in context however, it becomes crystal. She has a lackadaisical attitude at the level of killing she has to perform. Which. is. psy-cho-pa-thic!
Crystal clear context...1. She’d been one of the Mesan Alignment’s most effective “wet work” specialists for decades, because she was smart, she was tough, she was quick-thinking…and she really, really liked killing people. If she hadn’t been so far inside the onion, she’d have fitted in perfectly with Manpower, although her tendency to kill people probably would have cut into even Manpower’s profit margin. He hadn’t doubted for a moment that she’d actually like the notion of setting off nuclear devices in urban settings.
2. Of course I do, and so does Albrecht. If you see a better option, I’m sure he’d be delighted to hear it.”
“It’s going to be even messier from the get-go than our existing Houdini plans ever envisioned,” she continued, ignoring his last sentence. “I mean a lot messier, Rufino. Right off the top of my head, I’d be astonished if the collateral damage doesn’t at least double even before we start tying off those loose ends.”
“I know,” he sighed. The difference between them, he thought, was that for Marinescu that was simply a tactical problem, not a moral one.
3. She was one of those people who confused eagerness to kill with willingness to kill,
Can't get any more psychopathic than that. Well, she can. And she (Marinescu not Bardasano) does, with the emotionless killings.
She's so psychopathic it's humorous. Your stubbornness on this matter is also, humorous. Give up the ghost man!
I never denied that she was a stone-cold psychopath. Where do you get the idea that I did?