Dear Miker:
I am a longtime fan of your intelligent, well-supported
posts, and still give thanks to you for wading through so
much literary criticism in a user-friendly manner. That said,
I find your posts on dogfighting and meat-eating way way off
base, and your criticism of Pelecanos's logic (and your pomo
parody) confusing at best. Are you saying that because people
kill animals for food that there's no such thing as animal
cruelty?
I know there's plenty of moral and ethical paradoxes brought
up by PETA, Peter Singer, etc., but there's a real-world
context that draws some pretty big, longstanding
distinctions. Plenty of people do make the argument that
there's no difference between (socially supported, judicially
approved) capital punishment and murder, or abortion and
murder, or wartime actions and murder. I don't think many
make the leap to condoning murder, though.
Miker, you've got Brian Thornton sorta supporting something
Pelecanos wrote - that alone should tell you something's
wrong. And props to Pelecanos (yes, I'm a big fan, go ahead,
make fun of me) for writing ahead-of-the-curve Drama City and
other books that grapple with real-world social and moral
issues. At their best, hardboiled and noir
(no definitions, please) do that job very well.
All best,
Bob V in NJ, a carnivore who's known some silly, gentle
Dobermans, and a pit bull I let my 2 year old play with
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Michael Robison
<miker_zspider@...> wrote:
>
> Brian Thornton wrote:
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> Boy, are you streeeeeeetching.
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> *************
> Haha. A standard pomo tactic.
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> miker
>
>
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