Marvy

[Brian D. McCary]

From: Penny Padgett:    But are any of these castratable offenses?

From: Aaron Yeater:  	I always figured the ole' boy's castration was not 
a come-uppance, as such, but a moment of comic incompetence by "them".

I think Aaron's got this one right.  I never saw Marvy's castration as 
punishment.  If anything, there is a little ironic counter action: here
is a character who is overtly racist, mysoginistic, and sadistic, as well
as a fool of the system, and we can't do much about it, but at least 
the world a generation from now will be a better place if he doesn't 
have kids to pass his values on to.  It's the same as the knowlege/death
thing on the Saved thread; it's easier to prevent the creation of a
bigot than to re-educate them later.  But, as Aaron points out, this is
not a direct act, it's just noise in the system leading to systemic
limitation.