GRGR (15): Good & Evil (was Enzian...)

[Peter Petto]

On 12/10/1999, Ron Meiners wrote:

>Or more, that this conditioning by one's environment is much more central
>to the moral center of the book.  The morality of the situation is not as
>interesting or as important as the morality of the relationship:  or the
>manipulated society which creates our daily "reality".  Certainly the
>resonance of dog psychology, and Pavlov, is appropriate here.
>
>The system is the evil, and as it persists it must and will create evil.

I'm not sure what you mean here. If someone wants to assault or batter my 
daughter (the situation) -- I can't imagine any relation between my 
daughter and the assailant, any morality of the relationship that would 
change my attitude toward the situation.

In discussion of GR I've heard comments that there was never a more willing 
victim than Gottfried, and I recall scenes with Ilse and Bianca in which 
there is the element of seductress about them. But I still would call 
Blicero murderer. And I still find pedophila shocking and wrong.

So it bothers me when my eye is drawn to some Calvin Klein advertisement, 
because I learned in GR that the impulse that draws me is some mighty bad mojo.

    p3++