Have I ever written to tell you how much I enjoy your posts? Because I really, really do.
I think drawing a high contrast world where Good is Good and Evil is Evil and you can tell because the Evil side does a bunch of killing is actually dangerous. People can get a hell of a long way into doing really bad stuff and still say they're not Evil because Evil is Those Other People Who Do Killing. Evil is always Those Other People. No helpful.
And it keeps us from ever examining our own lives and motivations. Not a murderer? Then I'm Okay!
And people dying is kind of a distraction when the point is different ways of living.
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branchandroot
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Date: 2009-09-07 12:20 pm (UTC)I think drawing a high contrast world where Good is Good and Evil is Evil and you can tell because the Evil side does a bunch of killing is actually dangerous. People can get a hell of a long way into doing really bad stuff and still say they're not Evil because Evil is Those Other People Who Do Killing. Evil is always Those Other People. No helpful.
And it keeps us from ever examining our own lives and motivations. Not a murderer? Then I'm Okay!
And people dying is kind of a distraction when the point is different ways of living.
OMG YES!