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And this idea of a 'norm' isn't perjorative?
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Why? Norm is a standard notion in ethics and morality.
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You are taking your moral value system & attempting to present it as the norm, thereby implying that anyone who doesn't share it is immoral.
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For the second time, I am talking about a case in which the person adopts said moral principles, that certain ideas/feelings/propensities are wrong/evil/immoral.
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in the sense of incorrect or immoral?
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Immoral.
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So, Dracula, Anne Rice, Buffy, Angel, all immoral works?
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If they try to present vampires as role-models, then, to me, the answer is yes. However, I am not aware this is the case with these works.
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Personally, being that Vampires are no more real than Tolkien's Elves, Orcs or Balrogs (or his Vampires come to that) in what sense is this fascination with none existent creatures 'wrong'?
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For me, it relates to a personal conviction, that being fascinated with vampires enstrages one from his soul.
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fascination with 'good' non existent creatures is 'right'
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It is right because it is consistent with morality; quite a truism I might say. I find pleasure and satisfaction in such a fascination, because it fulfills and helps, in its own way, a desire to come closer to what I believe is my ideal.
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I didn't say it necessarily does, only that, based on a study of Freud & Jung it is fairly apparent.
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Can you give those quotes?
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They may just realise that these 'civilians' never actually existed.
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You still haven't answered my question.