Wednesday, September 14, 2011 # 9:54 AM
Doing a bad thing to prevent a bad thing
Right and wrong. Good vs evil. We're all taught in black and white as a kid. We're rewarded for doing something good or punished for doing something bad. As we grow, however, we begin to see gray- and I don't mean in our hair. That's where ethics come in. Is doing something bad still bad when it keeps something even worse from happening? When no one is around to reward or punish, do we still do the 'right' thing? And if the right thing is something terrible, do we still choose to do it? That's why I decided to make the characters in "The Travelers' Society'" young adults. Often, they're making those kinds of decisions for the first time. Sometimes the stakes are simple and silly like telling a seemingly inconsequential white lie, but sometimes the stakes are as high as life and death. When they are forced to make tough decisions, how do they live with the choices they make? Labels: novel fiction history teens adventure ethics
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