From: Olga Bourlin (fauxever@sprynet.com)
Date: Mon Jun 10 2002 - 19:04:46 MDT
From: "Samantha Atkins" <samantha@objectent.com>>
> Personally I have never found "virtual space" violence any more
> palatable than the physical space variety. I abhor both. ... Where
> does reality end and virtuality begin?
First let me say ... I don't know.
But I wonder if watching action films or reading comic books with a lot of
... good guy/bad guy (gender-not-specific use of "guy" here) PUMMEL!-
KAPOW!- WHOOSH!-type stuff would also qualify as gratuitous violence? What
about (some) fairy tales? Or horror films? I recall reading Bertrand
Russell wrote of his fondness for murder mysteries and detective novels. He
implied it tamed his beasty nature ... and he was a world-class pacifist.
Olga
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