| Vodstok |
06-24-2004 05:57 AM |
Sorry to bump this further, but regardless of the title of the thread, the content speaks for itself.
From what i can see, the average horror fan would not commit murder, whether from fear of reprisal, or just morally opposed to the idea of ending a life. The ratio, i would think,is pretty much the ssame as the rest of our society. So let someone stumble overt this thread and try to use it as ammunition. Then we will make congress, or whoever else they bitch too, read it, and get an education.
I have always been VERY empathetic. When i was 15, i read Homeland by R. A. Salvatore. It's the "first" story with the his character Drizzt (it wasnt the first story written with the character, but it was about his birth and childhooD), and it instantly became my favorite novel ever.
In it, Drizzt is born into a society that openly embraces murder as a means to move up socially. You have to take steps to hide it, but as long as you get away with it, you get silent claps.
He grew up empathetic, with an inborn sense of morality. That always stuck with me. i had a great childhood, but i liked seeing that even in a terrible situation, good people would still come through.
The point of all this is that stingy is correct in thinking that many of us would not do somethinglike this, simply because it is wrong.
And you dont have to have the looming threat of a horrible afterlife to keep you in line.
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