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Show a little human decency
Is it cold in here?:
My wife points out that fictional characters can be used for practicing decency so you can do it on people who exist in our universe.
Kalos:
--- Quote from: Ettore on 18 Nov 2010, 02:26 ---
--- Quote from: Kalos on 18 Nov 2010, 01:09 ---
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 17 Nov 2010, 20:49 ---If we can't be decent toward imaginary people, who can't affect us, how can we be decent to real people?
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...seriously? If you're going to be preachy, at least make sense.
If I can't be decent towards an imaginary person who can't affect me, how can I be decent to real people? Because they're real. They have feelings, ambitions, hopes, dreams. There's consequences for the way I treat them, their life matters (if not to me, than to someone). Marten, Dora and Faye are blobs of pixels, abstract ways of displaying binary information. If I call them an asshole on the internet, they're not going to care, because they're incapable of caring, because they're fictional characters.
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I may be wrong, but I think you wouldn't be able to write anything good.
Fortunately, QC characters are more to Jeph than just characters.
Cheers
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I'm incapable of writing anything good because I can discern reality from fiction?
I guess it's a good thing I'm not trying to be a writer then, since I don't suffer from any crippling delusions.
Ettore:
--- Quote from: Kalos on 18 Nov 2010, 15:03 ---
--- Quote from: Ettore on 18 Nov 2010, 02:26 ---
--- Quote from: Kalos on 18 Nov 2010, 01:09 ---
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 17 Nov 2010, 20:49 ---If we can't be decent toward imaginary people, who can't affect us, how can we be decent to real people?
--- End quote ---
...seriously? If you're going to be preachy, at least make sense.
If I can't be decent towards an imaginary person who can't affect me, how can I be decent to real people? Because they're real. They have feelings, ambitions, hopes, dreams. There's consequences for the way I treat them, their life matters (if not to me, than to someone). Marten, Dora and Faye are blobs of pixels, abstract ways of displaying binary information. If I call them an asshole on the internet, they're not going to care, because they're incapable of caring, because they're fictional characters.
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I may be wrong, but I think you wouldn't be able to write anything good.
Fortunately, QC characters are more to Jeph than just characters.
Cheers
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I'm incapable of writing anything good because I can discern reality from fiction?
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No, because you don't give in to involvement and identification with the character. That's how I see it, of course. Discern reality from fiction is what keeps you from being insane, not from being a writer.
Cheers
tbones:
human decency?!?!
HA! it's an oxymoron dude!
IanClark:
Fictional characters are real in the sense that they occupy some corner of our minds when we read them and as such when we empathize with them, their emotions become real in a sense. Really, what needs to be said is show a little human decency toward the people who are genuinely saddened by this arc in the story because they identify with the characters involved, or the story itself. Show a little human decency toward people like me who went through exactly what Marten's going through a few months ago or the people who have been reading QC since the beginning and feel like they're watching two of their best friends fight. Hell, show a little human decency for Jeph, who pours his soul into each and every one of his characters only to come on the forums and see people rip apart one of his creations and call her a piece of shit even though that's not even remotely what he intended.
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