>>2690185He definitely has his charm and you can't deny he at least put his money where his mouth is. Faustian in a way.
At the end of the day, if we do feel a certain way about the likes of Richard Russell or that one penguin from Herzog's Encounters at the end of the world, why not McCandless as well? The more threads we have about how much of a retard he was, the more sympathetic towards him I get. Imagine dog-piling on Ikarus, swarthoid-tier behavior.