Perhaps a dumb rant, but I really hate how people will sometimes treat Leland Coyle like he's "the most evil" of the PAs.
Like, first off, I don't think there IS a most evil, they're all "evil" in their own ways.
I would even hesitate to call them evil, I feel like evil implies they were born like this, or that they're inherently bad, but they're not. They're all products of their environment, and Coyle is the same. They're bad people, terrible people even, but I don't like the use of the word evil for them, but that's neither here nor there.
I feel like calling Coyle "the most evil" or "the worst of them" not only downplays the other's "evilness" (again, I don't think they're evil, they're bad people, yes, but evil isn't the word I'd use) but also makes, not a lot of sense to me? Yes he's racist, so are the Kress twins. Yes he has killed people, so have literally everyone else in this goddamn game, yes he's misogynistic, the others most likely are too (including Gooseberry, or her father at least. Liliya is a question mark for this because we don't really know much of her in that regard). Yes he's a rapist, again, almost all of them are.
If I had to choose a "worst" of them, it'd be the Kress twins, mostly because they're fucking billionaires! Coyle was limited only to his area, as far as I know, but Kress chemical was everywhere. Otto was a politician (or controlled politicians?), they had more of a hand in things, in the government, than Coyle ever did. Not to mention than Otto looks up to fucking Hitler (apparently, I may need to double check that but I'm 90% sure he does).
Even then, I don't like choosing a worst, they're all terrible fucking people. They're all horrible. It isn't about choosing "the best" of them or the most pure, there is no one in this game who is innocent (except for some of the victims and ex-pop perhaps). Everyone has done something bad.
Like, I can understand not liking Coyle, you can have your feelings about him, that's fine. I just really hate when people have this sort of "I'm better than you" attitude in regards to others liking Coyle or when they treat him like he's the absolute worst character in the whole game.
Also, I'm tired of people treating the women like somehow better than the other PAs?? It's weird, it gives the vibes of "women can't hurt people like men do" which is bullshit. Gooseberry is at least a little implied to be a pedophile and even if she isn't she encouraged kids to do drugs and kill their parents, didn't she? Her whole thing with kids is weird, no matter how "motherly" she acts you can't really brush that off as "harmless". We may not know much about Liliya but we can't just assume she's a morally good or even neutral person. Yes she targeted rich people, that's great, but she likely also targeted innocent people too, and maybe I don't know enough about her to really speak on her, but I feel like just based off her trial perhaps she also took part in some human trafficking (even if it was only to get at her rich victims or something of the sort). I don't know, this is a rushed point because my phone is about to die, but anyways. They're all horrible people, that's it. No one is worse, no one is better.
