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by ianferrel
5200 days ago
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> What about the whole "Ender commits mass genocide" part? I claim there's a difference between a violent act, and a violent work of literature about that act. The book spends only a paragraph or two on the actual genocide. No graphic descriptions are portrayed. If I write, "Hitler and the Nazis killed millions of people in WWII", does that make this post violent? I'd argue that it does not. It's a fairly dry and matter-of-fact description of very violent acts. The post is not violent. On the other hand, I could write a particularly violent description of a minor fight that left both people alive, but would be far more gruesome and objectionable. There's not a direct relationship between a body count and the violence of a literary work about it. |
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