phoenix@genat.UUCP (phoenix) (02/22/86)
In article <512@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes: >Part two of response on "God Loves, Man Kills". > >In article <2667@colossus.fluke.UUCP> moriarty@fluke.UUCP (The Napoleon of Crime) writes: > >>And as to a "punch-out", by FAR the best thing about this book is >>the conclusion, with the X-Men and Kitty refraining from attacking Stryker. > >This sort of Star Trek "I'm better than you are"-ism is one of Claremont's >worst points. Someone actually LIKES this sort of heavy-handed moralizing??? >(Of course, Marv Wolfman does. Next question.) What I enjoy is watching for >the deus ex machina that invariably resolves the situation. Will the aliens >come down and tell Kirk that he wins because he wouldn't kill? Does a cop >blow away the bad guy? Stay tuned next week for "Too Wimpy To Make My >Characters Face Up to their Responsibilities".... > *I* like this kind of "heavy-handed moralizing". Possibly I am infinitely naive, but I happen to think that "Good" *is* better than "Evil" and one of the reasons that I think so is because *good* while admitting that it may be imperfect, strives to do better than its limitations; and it does not fight *evil* with its own weapons. If *good* does so, then *evil* has already won, has it not? The end never justifies the means. -- The Phoenix (Neither Bright, Dark, nor Young) ---"A man should live forever...or die trying." ---"There is no substitute for good manners...except fast reflexes."