Asayogure ... �HTP� wrote:
But save your breath if you intend to convince me that rape is not
a black and white issue, for me it is.
Even "black and white issues" can be oversimplified. To take an example,
you portrayed the rapists as lower class, physically repellent, and stupid.
Presumably nobody would care whether these "subhumans" were killed.
Certainly if you brought them into court on just about any charge you
could be just about guaranteed a conviction as soon a judge or jury
took one look at them.
That's very easy isn't it? Countless rapists have walked away free
or with light sentences because people expect rapists to be ugly, unhygenic,
poor, and dumb, and the actual rapists in the case at hand turned out to be
good looking, well groomed, middle class and even articulate. Heck, they
even have weeping mothers and devoted girlfriends standing by their man.
By pretending that the rapists weren't human beings, you certainly make
it easier to kill them without compunction, but you also make it easier
to pretend that we share nothing in common with them, that none of our
friends and family could do such a thing. They might as well be bug-eyed
aliens from Alpha Centauri, or be-tentacled monsters from Niffleheim.
Tom: <steam starting to rise from his bubbledome> Instead, we have
some....'being of light' or some crap like that, come down to earth,
plays
tonsil hockey with Ranma and gives him the powers of the force, even
when it's PAINFULLY obvious that the author is trying to pad out the
fic by making this gang seem tougher than they really are because
anyone
with half a BRAIN knows Ranma could have wasted these guys in 5
seconds flat without breaking a SWEAT!!!
That wasn't the point, as I see it Ranma has been conditioned NOT (yes I
emphasize particular points with all capitals, deal with it) to kill.
So
it had to have extreme cause and he had to be forced into the killing.
No he didn't. That lot could have been easily subdued without killing them.
Crow: <bigsweats> C-Come on, Servo, you're thinking about this way
too much....
Joel: Just think happy thoughts, Tom! Happy thoughts!
Tom: <a black aura forms around his bubblehead, it's edges rippling
with a crimson, blood-like substance that flickers wildly about like
flames from a fire.> AND THE WAY THE AUTHOR KEPT FEELING
THE NEED TO EXPLAIN *EVERY* SINGLE LITTLE DEVELOPMENT,
FROM THE POSSIBLE IMPACT OF A MISSED PUNCH TO HOW WE
SHOULD FEEL ABOUT THE BLACK LEATHER GANG!!! GOD, IT
JUST MAKES ME *SO* MAD!!! I'M FILLED WITH ANGER!!! I'M
ENRAGED!!! I'M FURIOUS!!! I'M....I'M GOING TO....TO....TO....
It is called descriptive detail. Try picking up almost any Sci-fi
novel in any book store in America and reading the first chapter,
You gotta be careful with descriptive detail. To take an example,
in the middle of a fist fight is the wrong moment to describe what
everyone is wearing for the same reason that cheerleaders should not
shake their booty in the middle of a major play.