5 Reasons why Andrew Ryan was a madman.

Andrew Ryan, the man behind Rapture. Born into poverty in Russia, and rose to wealth and fame in America Andrew Ryan was hardened by what he encountered throughout his life. Rapture, his magnum opus, a city where the sweat on your brow is owned by no other than yourself, where the artist is free from the censor at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.Now building a sprawling city underwater is actually not a monstrously ludicrous idea really, but governing it the way Ryan did makes him nigh on insane.

1. Rapture had zero moral restraints.
Now this is deliberate Rapture was built so that morality and ethics couldn't get in the way of science and the arts in any way shape or form. The issues arise from having no regulation on literally anything, a titular issue that is seen very early on is addiction the the gene altering substance ADAM, any degree of testing initially on non-humans or some sort of work around or hot-fix would have made all the difference in the long run as ADAM addiction leads to excessive gene-splicing and thus the populous of Rapture devolve into the aptly named Splicers.

2. Ryan took laissez faire too literally.
Laissez Faire, or "Hands off" is a political ideal where the government has nothing to do with certain aspects of its systems, the economy most often. In Rapture, although Andrew Ryan is the founder and de-facto leader of the city his mindset meant that he didn't intervene on literally anything that went on in Rapture, which rapidly led to its downfall. The deliberate disregarding of Frank Fontaine who from the start was blatantly attempting to usurp Rapture to the complete and total lack of any attention to the well being or moral standard of any citizen attributed heavily to the downfall of Rapture.

3. Ryan's Politics.
Because Rapture had no real leader, Ryan's position as the wealthiest among the people and founder of the city set him up as a political figure head, because of this Ryan took it on himself to compete many times in political stand offs and campaigns against key figures in the community. See Rapture was top heavy when it came to social class, the rich and intelligent were like gods in their pantheon but the lowly workers who actually built Rapture were still in the city, and they were upset because of the drastic imbalance in the system, Frank Fontaine struck out against the upper class and soon a political war broke out, during which instead of convicting Fontaine on his crimes of smuggling and trafficking on the spot Ryan chose to debate with Fontaine, a debate that destroyed a vast amount of Ryan's credibility with his people and only acted to stoke the already white hot flames of rebellion. Ryan will go on to repeat this suicidal debate style with other candidates stirring Rapture's populous