[LMB] SP: TSK:B World building (was discussion ranging over the whole book)

[Tzivia Adler]

From: "Tracy MacShane" <trix at queerscience.net>
> On Tue, September 19, 2006 1:04 am, Sarah Bixler wrote:
>> Elizabeth Holden <azurite at rogers.com> wrote:
>> --- Scott Raun  wrote:
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>> Sean wrote:
>>> There's all _sorts_ of interesting speculation we
>>> can make about malices.  Yes, they kill off all the life around
>>> them - but are they really evil?
>>
>> Elizabeth Wrote:
>> Yes. Perhaps it depends how you define 'evil', but
>> anything so malevolent to human well-being fits that
>> description in my book.
>>
>> I (Sarah) wrote:
>> I have always defined evil as something that kills/hurts because the goal
>> is killing/hurting.  This applies to revenge as well as people who simply
>> take joy in other's pain.  The Malice's goal is not to hurt, rather it is
>> to sustain itself.  For me, the actions of the Malice are evil but the
>> creature is not.
>> Sarah
>>
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> Hate the sin and not the sinner? I never have understood that particular
> line.
 > I personally don't care in this instance whether the "evil" is conscious
> or not - the consquences for the victims are the same either way.
>
most generally, i'd agree with you.  in this case the malice is draining 
everything around it of life, like a parasite with a world-sized apetite. 
mindless world-domination is as evil, i think, as any mad scientist/greedy 
politician who wnats to take over the world.  (except for pinky and the 
brain.  they are not evil.  so there.)

however, just to counter argue:  what about typhoid mary?  she was perfectly 
healthy, but she spread the plague wherever she went.  i'm sure she was a 
very nice person, in herself, but who would want to breathe near her?
does that help explain, hate the sin, not the sinner?

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