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WCDT: 2593-2597 (09-13 December 2013) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
jwhouk:
Somewhere in the Discussion Forum Rules, I think we need a section about "projecting yourself onto the characters".
blacksinow:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 12 Dec 2013, 17:12 ---Somewhere in the Discussion Forum Rules, I think we need a section about "projecting yourself onto the characters".
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I'm not projecting myself, and I refuse to ignore the evidence infront of me.
PthariensFlame:
--- Quote from: blacksinow on 12 Dec 2013, 17:17 ---I'm not projecting myself, and I refuse to ignore the evidence infront of me.
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The problem is that your "evidence" can be interpreted multiple ways, and because Occam's Razor doesn't tend to apply in the QC-verse (and, as a semi-corollary, Hanlon's Razor applies a lot more than usual), the only way we can actually determine whether or not her problems are diagnosable or simply personal, or what the best course of action for fixing them is, is if Jeph states the answers outright for us. In the meantime, speculation must be accompanied by the proverbial zeroth law of probabalistic algebra: Don't assume, multiply.
Is it cold in here?:
Marigold could also be accounted for as a case of arrested development, as long as we're speculating. She can't be fundamentally as bad as she's acting right now, or the AnthroPC adoption service wouldn't have served her.
Isn't projecting ourselves into an unreal situation what fiction is all about?
Then on top of that the characters are realistic enough that lots of us have met people like them in real life, sometimes unpleasantly.
blacksinow:
--- Quote from: PthariensFlame on 12 Dec 2013, 18:39 ---
--- Quote from: blacksinow on 12 Dec 2013, 17:17 ---I'm not projecting myself, and I refuse to ignore the evidence infront of me.
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The problem is that your "evidence" can be interpreted multiple ways, and because Occam's Razor doesn't tend to apply in the QC-verse (and, as a semi-corollary, Hanlon's Razor applies a lot more than usual), the only way we can actually determine whether or not her problems are diagnosable or simply personal, or what the best course of action for fixing them is, is if Jeph states the answers outright for us. In the meantime, speculation must be accompanied by the proverbial zeroth law of probabalistic algebra: Don't assume, multiply.
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If a serial killer diagnosed with mental health issues kills twenty people, do you coddle him and say "It's okay, you can continue to behave as you were." or do you not address the issue at hand? No matter what Marigold's problem is, she still needs to be held accountable so she can REALIZE that she has a problem. Otherwise, she would continue to behave as though nothing has happened before. The purpose of accountability is to educate someone of their dilema. What follows after is typically figuring out what sort of help can be provided. When I say hold someone accountable, I am not saying yell at them until you are blue in the face, but tell them they are being a jackass.
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