#WritingWonders 22Aug- What makes your heroes feel weak?
I don't write "heroes"; I write about people trying to do what they think is the right thing, and sometimes the outcome of their actions is perceived as heroic by third parties.
#WritingWonders 22Aug- What makes your heroes feel weak?
I don't write "heroes"; I write about people trying to do what they think is the right thing, and sometimes the outcome of their actions is perceived as heroic by third parties.
Footnote: I don't believe in good and evil as real entities: it smacks of Christian dualist mysticism (and I'm absolutely not Christian in my world-view). Yes, there are things that from our perspective we experience as good or evil, and it's reasonable to treat them as such—but our perceptions of them are subjective and can often be open to reinterpretation.
@cstross
"I don't believe in numbers as real entities: it smacks of Pythagorian mysticism. Yes, there are thing that from our perspective we experience as enumerated, and it's reasonable to treat them as such - but our perceptions of them are subjective and can often be open to interpretation"
(Or on the wider application, see Death's conversation with Susan in The Hogfather about the important big lies)
#SharedMentalConstructs
@cstross I tend to swing for more malicious or altruistic as my motivators instead of good/evil (and they aren't mutually exclusive), which can relate emotionally back to people in general. Those map somewhat easily onto what most people envision when they say 'evil' or 'good', but give a stronger emotional base I find (could be an autism thing, the never-ending search to have relatable emotional basis for the purposes of communication).
@cstross I frequently see good and evil as the subjective assignments of how we feel about underlying selfishness viewed through the lens of societal norms. e.g. The more we put our own desires ahead of the needs of others tends to put us more on the culturally evil end of the scale.
It's fun to play with different (possibly fictional) cultural lenses to see what good and evil assignments we get.
@cstross THANK you. Always hated the good/evil thing. So Christian. So black and white. No thanks.
@cstross haha! Just read last night a similar statement in the Niven Pournelle sequel to their own Inferno.
The Sequel is more Danteish than the original .
That dualism is the gift of the Essences to Christianity, from their own Solar Franchise of Zorastorianism