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  Re: How politically incorrect is the death of children in sci-fi?  
From: Warp
Date: 16 Sep 2007 05:58:51
Message: <46ecfe5b@news.povray.org>
Greg M. Johnson <pte### [at] thecommononethatstartswithycom> wrote:
> Can you show 10-year olds in a sort of "The Poseidon Adventure" epic where
> not all the ones you introduce the reader to survive by the end?

  You are going to offend someone.

  This can of course be understood completely in the wrong way, but children
are the Holy Cows of the later 20th century and the 21st. Even completely
fictitious accounts of maltreatment is seen as a tabu. I think it has gone
a bit overboard.

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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