--- Kevin Burton Smith
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kvnsmith@thrillingdetective.com> wrote:
> You seem to be confusing hard-boiled literature
with
> comic books. Or
> possibly video games. Or Bruce Willis movies.
Have
> you actually read
> any of the books you cite? To claim that the
heroes
> in the hard-
> boiled genre always succeed in the end is to
grossly
> misread the
> massive amount of evidence at hand.
**************************************************** The
original conversation was actually about the work of Mickey
Spillane. I don't think any of my points are too far off
track where Spillane's work is concerned.
***************************************************
> I'm not sure most people NEED to play
Chainsawing
> Nuns or whatever to
> curb their "normal" impulses -- and it
apparently
> doesn't work,
> anyway. If that were the case, young men
(the
> principal players of
> video games) would not be the most violent
segment
> of society. Or are
> you suggesting that we need more video games
that
> feature more violence?
>
> And how on earth is skateboarding
violent?
*************************************************** Stop by
any hospital in the US, Kevin. There are an awful lot more
skateboard related injuries treated on a daily basis than
there are, for example, gun shot wounds. Despite the news
media playing up every example for all it's worth, it's been
decades since I personally saw a shooting in a US street. How
about you? A lot of street violence in your
neighborhood?
Patrick King
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