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In article <92314.140929KVJLC@ASUACAD.BITNET>, Jon L. Campbell <KVJLC@ASUACAD.BITNET> writes:
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|   Several people responded to my posting and challenged what my choatic
|theory or morality and theme.

Or was it one person responding several times?  (Et tu, Maureen? :)

|   A story is just that.  Nothing more than one persons idea of reality or
|un-reality (i.e. lack of reality).  High school english or college writing,
|it doesn't matter, but wherever theme is taught it is an abuse of mankinds
|free choice.  The freedom to choose what is moral or not, the freedom to
|decide for themselves what is morality and what is immoral.  To write a
|moralistic theme into a story is equlivent to artistic incest.  Think
|about it.

I asked it before, and now I'm compelled to ask it again--why the HELL
do you write fiction, then?  If your goal is to have no influence on
your reader, the best way to achieve that is to keep your hands in
your pockets.  I don't have any patience with this kind of literary
ahimsa--how are readers to decide what they think is moral and not if
they do not have available to them examples of different moralities?


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[Ahimsa is an Indian philosophy that holds all life sacred and dictates
that its practitioners go to heroic lengths to avoid killing anything.
At an extreme, believers in ahimsa wear masks to protect against
inadvertently breathing in and drowning small insects, and sweep the
ground before them to avoid stepping on small creatures.  They must
either be unaware of, or try not to think of, what goes on all the time
in their own bodies--their immune systems and their colons.]

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--Fred, or another blind 8th-century BC  |  sasafw@dobo.unx.sas.com
        Hellenic poet of the same name.  |