18th February 2007, 10:07 PM
And here's another thing. What's with some author's need to "always maintain the balance between good and evil". Now if they use some alternative definition of good and evil where like, for example, anything being destroyed, like thread when you make a sweater, is "evil", then fine. But if you use the huministic definition where for example murder is evil and saving lives is good, why maintain a "balance" at all? If good and evil is basically just left to whatever we think it is, why not just eliminate evil altogether? But more than that, none of these stories ever once say something like "the good side has become too strong, to maintain the balance you need to kill X number of people".
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)