A question of morals

[simplykitten]

Uh..warning...some sexual topics are described below...so family may not want to read this? It's not MY sex or anything, it's about a book, but still.

Recently I read (in Looking for It by Michael Thomas Ford, in case you were curious), I came across an interesting (and horrible) situation, which made me take a moment to reflect.

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Comments

[confidentsoba]

I don't think it necessarily means you're a giant softy, just that that's the sort of reaction the author was probably hoping for.

Personally, I know something similar (though not sexuality-motivated) happened to me when I was watching Blassreiter, and it's part of why I mark it as a good show. I mean, it really was a character you spent all their screen time hating. At one point I even thought to myself, "Oh, well, they'll probably get killed by a monster later." And then when it actually happened... I liked that it was able to turn me on my head like that. Sort of a, "Hey, we know you have these feelings, but see how bad it is to actually act on them?"

This might not have prodded the point you were going for. XD But your thoughts made my thoughts meander a little, and I felt compelled to comment.

[simplykitten]

Actually, I kinda think you do get the point exactly. And I'm sure it was the author's intent to make me kinda feel bad for the guy (he later realizes he is "a fag" and shoots himself). But I guess what I was going for was the concept that sometimes in the abstract with think "I'd punish those who deserve it" but then when faced with actually that person's feelings, we'd realize that we are no better than them if we do.

It's kinda interesting to think about Batman this way, now that I've started.

[frogs_of_war]

The military spends weeks conditioning people to be able to shoot their fellow beings. If most people had a gun and the person who wronged them at their mercy, they wouldn't shoot. Otherwise we'd have a lot more murders. So you had a perfectly normal reaction.

I didn't finish Looking for It because I couldn't keep track of the all characters I was bombarded with. (I think it's that book.) I like his book about the engaged guy fixing a vacation home and falling for the guy staying in it. And Changing Tides (I think that's the name) with the marine biologist and the Steinbeck scholar. That was one of the first gay novels I ever read and the water imagery in the sex at the end cracks me up every time I think of it. It was a good book though.

[simplykitten]

yeah...Ten days later I reply >.<

Looking for It does switch through a lot of characters and I had to keep flipping to the front panel where it had a brief list of them to cheat..but I think in the end the confusion in the beginning irons itself out. At least it did for me.

Do you remember what the title of the book about the engaged guy fixing a vacation home was?

[frogs_of_war]

The book was Last Summer. It had lots of people in it, but I never got confused about who was who.