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Originally Posted by rick404
I don't like to look at the world in the perspective of moral absolutes. The fruit of the tree of wisdom was knowledge of the consequence of choice.
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Exactly! Every situation is different, and a strict set of moral rules can often make it difficult to find the best or most proper/ethical/moral choice.
I hear some call this "moral relativism", which it's not, at least not as
they're using the term.
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Originally Posted by rick404
Now with EC stuff (I like that!) what I tend to see is a deviation from social morals and norms (ie perversions) not so much good going evil...though you really cannot avoid the Good/Evil absolutes in things like sentai series such as Sailor Moon where the characters are so motivated by the fact that they are the righteous defenders of justice. Where would we be without name modifiers like Evil, Dark, or Black (ie Dark Sakura vs Sakura)
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Yeah. I've considered my scene-idea starting with not just a "good-girl", but with one who's religious upbringing has her so closed off, subservient, terrified of the idea of sin, and thus terrified of most of her thoughts and impulses. Make-up is sinful, speaking one's mind is sinful, disobeying a man is sinful, etc. That sort of messed up bs.
And the change makes her more self-confident, strong willed, etc., and sexy-sensual in a darkly elegant sort of way.
The change makes her into everything that she'd always been taught was sinful and evil.
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Originally Posted by rick404
As for demons...they tend represent an un-man, something physically and mentally inhuman which is so often successfully represented by a beast of some sort. Humans with the notion that they are so far removed from animals have typically found images of cross between the two disturbing and frightful...which usually suits the purpose of describing what evil must look like.
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Yeah, I think you're right. I always got a huge kick out of those old ideas of how we're "above the animal kingdom and the natural world". It's arrogant, and not all that smart from a survival standpoint.
About the beastial demonic appearance, it may be partly a species-memory, from the time when our scary monsters were just the normal animals around us, who considered us as having good taste.
It was probably after we got better at protecting ourselves from the
natural predators that we started picturing "demons" etc as we do today.