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In article <1992Nov10.065900.28476@nwnexus.WA.COM>, elf@halcyon.com (Elf Sternberg) writes:
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|   I'm not going to shirk my feelings for the sake of a "good" story.
|"With great power comes great responsibility," "The highest human value
|is personal responsibility," "Everything in human experience is
|negotiable," "Free will is good," "Technology is inherently the tool of
|people, neither good nor evil in its own right," and so forth... these
|are _my_ beliefs, and no 'protagonist' of mine is going to argue
|against them.  Not only would I not respect myself in the morning, but
|I doubt I could convincingly write such a story.

This an interesting outlook.  I find I tend to write stories in which I
disagree with the moral outlook and personal philosophy of some of the
characters--as often as not, the protagonist.  The protagonist of my
novel, REMOTE CONTROL, is a violent, manipulative, and self-righteous
bigot.  I think writing these stories is one way I have of coming to
terms with the fact that most people don't agree with my own
philosophical viewpoint, even though it is patently superior. :)

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