I completely agree with Charles. While I am quite interested
in capital punishment from my days as a reporter when I
covered murder trials, interviewed victim (and murderer)
families, conducted death row interviews and was twice
selected to be a witness to electrocutions (last minute
reprieves saved me from that), I don't come to this list to
read endless debates about the death penalty without even the
tip of the hat to fiction.
Richard Moore
> But to just talk about a non-
> fictional case itself, at length, for message after
message after
> message, with nary a reference to fiction along the
way? I doubt
I'm
> the only person here who finds that annoying and
disruptive. It's
a
> conversation I might well be interested in taking
part in
somewhere
> else -- but not here.
>
> Just my 2 cents, obviously, and if the broad
sentiment is
otherwise,
> so be it. But this is not what I, at least, come to
Rara-Avis for.
>
> --Charles
>
> P.S. To avoid any misunderstanding, I am not
complaining at all
about
> the *content* of anyone's comments. It's not that I
am offended
by
> one or the other sides in the death penalty debate,
or that I am
> bothered by the discussion of sensitive topics, or
anything of the
> sort. I only object to polluting a crime fiction
list with an
> extended discussion of a topic other than crime
fiction. Talk
about
> the *connection* between fiction and the real world
all you want --
> but when you start talking *only* about the real
world, you're
doing
> in the wrong place.
>
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