re: There are only 16 "decent men in fiction"

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Cinna from The Hunger Games

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bullshite. He wasn't evil, but he enabled the system just as much as anyone else there.

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The follow-up book puts him back as a racist I think who just believed in the justice system. Therefore, not on the list.

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Yeah. From my understanding Go Set a Watchman shite on his character big time.

Interesting because he’s been noted as a top hero in fiction for a long time. Not after the second book.

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The follow-up book puts him back as a racist I think who just believed in the justice system. Therefore, not on the list.

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There are a lot of questions and controversy around Go Set a Watchman. If you take it on its face then Finch is not the paragon of morality depicted in To Kill a Mockingbird.

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Yeah. From my understanding Go Set a Watchman shite on his character big time.

Interesting because he’s been noted as a top hero in fiction for a long time. Not after the second book.

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Thats because Harper Lee’s dumbass actually wrote the second book. Truman wrote a much better story in To Kill A Mockingbird

I also nominate Humbert from "Lolita"

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List is shite. No Atticus Finch.

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Atticus has been recognized as racist for decades and the somewhat newly discovered novel, makes it explicit. How is any white man from Alabama in the first half of the 20th century not racist by today's standards.