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Originally Posted by davem
No, because you're assuming that what one reader considers good (& evil) is the same as what another reader does.
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You are misrepresenting my argument - I am not talking about my ideas. In the very paragraph you quoted, I said (emphasis added):
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If for the whole there is a norm: "certain ideas/feelings/propensities are immoral", then this rule exists also for the parts of it.
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This assumes that the person in question has the above mentioned moral norm. If he has that norm, then yeah, any instance of it crossing it is immoral, regardless the circumstance. If somehow this was unclear, I apologise.
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Originally Posted by davem
How many of us do not feel a thrill of excitement when we read about the fate of the young woman at the hands of the Fairy Host
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I'll be frank, I consider fascination with vampires and the likes as wrong.
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So, 'deriving pleasure' from such tales is no different from committing such acts?
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How could you possibly derrive that from my statement? Anyway, my answer is that there is a whole world of a difference between the two.
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In fact, if we didn't fantasise about doing bad things every so often there would be a whole lot more bad things happening.
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You seem quite sure of this idea. How can you back it? How can you prove that thinking about an evil thing necessarily drives us away from doing it?
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Originally Posted by davem
some readers may think Gondolin was filled with annoying self satisfied idiots & deserved what it got
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Do these readers believe that slaughter of civilians, plunder & co are justified?