The Glade 4.0

An Essay on Ender's Game

http://www4.ncsu.edu/~tenshi/Killer_000.htm


Creating the Innocent Killer:
Ender's Game, Intention, and Morality
by John Kessel

Not a bad read I thought.

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Holy shitsnacks!

Can you make a run through the article in under twelve parsecs?

TL;DR version?

Ender is not Hitler, and should not be seen as an allegory for him. But, there is more than *solely* intent in morality, as OSC would argue against.

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Holy shitsnacks!

I guess I never thought about it that way. Silly me I just thought it was a fiction book for enjoyment.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

I see what you did there and I like it.

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

Interesting.

All dictators believed they were right in their actions. They believed their own values over anyone else's... it's a dangerous line of thought but necessary for charismatically holding power.

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"The map is not the territory."

This is why FarSky and I cohabit headspace.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Morality is defined by people.

Some people choose to be actors (defining their own morality).

Most people choose to be reactors (using others' morality).

Being an actor gets more things done. However, it can be like walking into a chicken's nest if you aren't careful.

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"The map is not the territory."

Chickens nest? Are you sure that is what you wanted to say Lex?

I think that has been linked here before. I could be wrong. I know I have read it before. This is one of the things I hate. Why can't you just read a story and enjoy it. Why must you pick it apart and try to see some kind of message behind the tale? Anyone ever think that maybe the only desire a person has in getting a book published is to get paid?

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Raell Kromwell

Meant chicken's pen. Hehe

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"The map is not the territory."

Coop. Chickens live in a coop.

Ok, I fail at English then. You all got me.

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"The map is not the territory."

English is as easy as cake.

Me fail English? That's unpossible!

Until they get married and have a family, then they need a sedan.

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Holy shitsnacks!

I think you meant hornets' nest. That could hurt. Walking into a chicken coop/next/pen would just get you covered in chicken poop. Come to think of it, I did get popped in the eye once when I was picking eggs down in Arkansas, but it didn't have the same level of danger as walking into a hornets' nest.

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This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge