If I killed Chuck Austen, would that be a bad thing or a g..

Mjr_disaster2002.RemoveThis@yahoo.com (K.Wylde) wrote in
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 > On the one hand, he is a horrible writer.

On the one hand, the fact that you are asking that question--even in jest--
means you've got some serious problems.

You may not like Chuck Austen's work, but this is a real live person you
are talking about. He's got feelings, family, etc. He's real--not a comic
book character. A person. Get it?

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In article <Xns94CF1659EA09carlhendersondotnet.TakeThisOut@151.164.30.
93>, Carl Henderson <jch.TakeThisOut@carlhenderson.net> writes
 >Mjr_disaster2002@yahoo.com (K.Wylde) wrote in
 >news:ba7e359e.0404152006.6f32a105@posting.google.com:
 >
  >> On the one hand, he is a horrible writer.
 >
 >On the one hand, the fact that you are asking that question--even in jest--
 >means you've got some serious problems.
 >
 >You may not like Chuck Austen's work, but this is a real live person you
 >are talking about. He's got feelings, family, etc. He's real--not a comic
 >book character. A person. Get it?

Well, yeah, but sometimes it's good that people get killed.
I might not be able to persuade you that this sanction is
necessary in respect of Chuck Austen, but I think the argument
would go on the lines that by writing bad comics stories /now/
which, by debasing the characters he uses, also damage
/previous/ comics art, and discourage people from reading
comics or superhero stories in the /future/, he is so badly
debasing the world's culture, which is a common good, that the
benefit to present and potential future comicbook readers of
taking him out outweighs the immediate harm done to him and
his dependents (and he probably has life insurance, anyway).
The effect of comics in any one reader's life may not be critically
important, but there are so many readers, it adds up.

I mean, suppose a kid's first comics are the issues of _Exiles_
where Ms. Marvel whores herself to Hyperion and Magik tries to do
the same to Morph, and then Hyperion kills Magik and Morph kills
Ms. Marvel. And the kid is so impressed that he grows up to be a
serial rapist and murderer. That's what Austen has /already/
done! Didn't Jesus say he'd be better off dead?

I am not entirely sure whether I am kidding or not.

Robert Carnegie at home, rja.carnegie.TakeThisOut@excite.com at large
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"Carl Henderson" <jch RemoveThis @carlhenderson.net> wrote in message
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 > Mjr_disaster2002 RemoveThis @yahoo.com (K.Wylde) wrote in
 > news:ba7e359e.0404152006.6f32a105@posting.google.com:
 >
  > > On the one hand, he is a horrible writer.
 >
 > On the one hand, the fact that you are asking that question--even in
jest--
 > means you've got some serious problems.
 >
 > You may not like Chuck Austen's work, but this is a real live person you
 > are talking about. He's got feelings, family, etc. He's real--not a comic
 > book character. A person. Get it?

That is what makes it funny, gorramit. Real people with feelings, family,
etc. are killed all the time. But for reasons as silly as their horrible
writing of comic books? It is an absurd premise for a discussion. The
humor derives from the absurdity, and also from the darkness, because like
it or not, human death and human suffering are, always have been, and always
will be valid forms of entertainment. Even for people without "serious
problems". Yes, reasonable, sane people really can disagree on this. If,
for some personal reason, you are offended rather than entertained, that
does not make you more or less reasonable or sane than those who are not.
It just makes you different. Go in peace.


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like something puts it down and says, "Enh. I'd rather read something else."
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