Raskolnikov: Extraordinary or Just Ordinary?

If you murder someone who only does wrong in the world, does that make you an extraordinary person or just a plain killer? This is one of the great debates in Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. Raskolnikov is a poor man who lives in a poor, Russian society. He watches evil people have large sums of money and this makes him try to take the money back. Raskolnikov is basically Robin Hood in Russia, where …

…The first preserve the world and people in it, the second move the world and lead to its goal. Each class has an equal right to exist," says Raskolnikov. (Dostoevsky 243) Now if the purpose of the extraordinary man is to preserve and make the world better than maybe the man should not run around murdering for self-gain. You would think that Raskolnikov of all people would know that. I guess he is just plain ordinary.