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Old 06-24-2014, 02:04 AM   #35
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I'm still a bit puzzled on how behaviour is rated, or found reprehensible
Most people consider raping children to be unacceptable. After that it gets a bit fuzzy. Feel free to apply your own criteria.


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But the in the last one I read (as I remember) the two protagonists had deliberately destroyed a town with all its inhabitants because some people from the town had killed messengers sent by the protagonists. That to me was just as vile (though in a different way) as anything MZB did. So I deleted all the books from my reader and library, and have never bought anything from those authors again. I don't think I've bought anything from Baen again either, though that's probably going too far.
I've read those books and I don't remember that specific incidence. My conclusion is that fictional war crimes don't make as much impression on me as real-life rape of children.
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