Xia wrote:Because I do not think that it should be dismissed just because it is fiction. Writing is a very powerful tool to sway people, in fact, media and literature in general. Triumph of the Will shouldn't be ignored because its just a film, ne?
I wasn't saying that it could or should be dismissed. I was simply giving one of many rationalizations for why someone would write such a thing, whether they would do it in real life or not, whether they were aware that others would be inspired to do it in real life or not. That's why it's "technically" alright, because
it does nothing, by itself. It's all dependent on the intentions of the writer, and the personality and interests of the reader. It's not going to create a problem or incite an event that doesn't already exist within either side's ability and interest to create or do. Which is not, of course, taking into account those who have no opinion or idea of their own and simply listen to someone or something they trust and/or believe in, due to naivete, blind faith, or what have you. Exceptions, exceptions, exceptions. There's simply no easy to way look at or understand it, no matter how simple it seems to be on the surface.
Because that is the Old Testament way of things which was changed in the New Testament. For those that take the Old Testament seriously, you'd get that. From those that don't, you won't.
That's not how it works. Certainly not for all or none of the many Christian branches that are out there. Many don't separate the
Hebrew Scriptures from the New Testament, in part because they can't: for, without it, there would be no basis for Christianity. Furthermore, there's a logical problem with picking and choosing arbitrarily, to suit one's own needs. After all, God himself, in Leviticus, said that an "eye for an eye" was what was to be done. If God is said to be wrong with any one thing, then what else could He possibly be wrong about, or of what we believe? (A fallacious argument, I'm sure, but it begs the question.) Or, aren't we to assume that he isn't capable of being wrong? And that's the problem with that line of thinking: if you can't take the basis for your beliefs seriously, then what
can you take seriously? That's also an issue when it comes to the topic of rape in TG fiction, and a part of what I was saying before. If a part of their basis for writing it is because it's fiction, and thus not real, they can justify anything, if they wanted to. Any writer, including those who wrote the scriptures in the bible.