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  Re: How politically incorrect is the death of children in sci-fi?  
From: John VanSickle
Date: 17 Sep 2007 18:51:17
Message: <46ef04e5@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> 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.

Which is kind of a turnaround since ancient times.  With a few 
exceptions, most ancient cultures treated children as objects.

Regards,
John


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