Post by ETypeRegymon on Nov 15, 2015 12:31:17 GMT
One thing that caught my attention in cla.ss was the fact that in the Old Witch and the Buried Moon, witches are evil simply because they are. When reading the stories, I thought the Old Witch's witch wasn't evil (she was just an eccentric old lady teaching morals in my eyes) and I didn't realize there were any witches in Buried Moon until the story basically spelled it out for me.
Which brings me to a question. Why do we judge things by their cover? Witches getting called evil based on a.ssumptions and difficult to prove evidence (we never actually see any accused witches do anything), causing them to be tortured and executed for a crime they likely did not commit, all while creating the "witches are evil" label, creating the cover the next generation will judge them as. And racism. Run into a group of people with a different skin color? Treat them as if they were dumb savages and enslave them for profit! The fact that there's slavery means that they do a.ssume them as "bad". And then there's gend-no, not going there.
The point is that making a.ssumptions has never made a good result in terms of fairness or equality. At best, it causes people to treat them slightly worse, and at absolute worst, we have a kid getting poured acid down their throat for "being a witch". So, to repeat, why do we a.ssume how other people are, regardless of accuracy? I don't have a response for this, other than "it's more convenient", so that's why there's a question.
*If you ctrl+f this paragraph, you will not find the word "discrimination", other than this sentence.*
(There were 7 freaking un cools, so editing...)
Which brings me to a question. Why do we judge things by their cover? Witches getting called evil based on a.ssumptions and difficult to prove evidence (we never actually see any accused witches do anything), causing them to be tortured and executed for a crime they likely did not commit, all while creating the "witches are evil" label, creating the cover the next generation will judge them as. And racism. Run into a group of people with a different skin color? Treat them as if they were dumb savages and enslave them for profit! The fact that there's slavery means that they do a.ssume them as "bad". And then there's gend-no, not going there.
The point is that making a.ssumptions has never made a good result in terms of fairness or equality. At best, it causes people to treat them slightly worse, and at absolute worst, we have a kid getting poured acid down their throat for "being a witch". So, to repeat, why do we a.ssume how other people are, regardless of accuracy? I don't have a response for this, other than "it's more convenient", so that's why there's a question.
*If you ctrl+f this paragraph, you will not find the word "discrimination", other than this sentence.*
(There were 7 freaking un cools, so editing...)
