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I\'m not going to copy/paste my tl;dr dissertation here because seriously, giant wall of text and you can find it. I would like, however, to make a few observations.
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I\\\'m not going to copy/paste my tl;dr dissertation here because seriously, giant wall of text and you can find it on the Animorphs YMMV discussion page. I would like, however, to make a few observations.
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These entries (well, half of them, as Jake, Aldrea, and Marco\'s MoralEventHorizon descriptions were around well before I joined the wiki) were added to prove a point - that point being the uselessness of the MoralEventHorizon in relation to Animorphs characters. When making your edits, MegaJ, you pointedly never touched David or Edriss\'s descriptions - the implication being that the actions of these two characters made them somehow beyond forgiveness, when as you can clearly see by comparison, the Animorphs commit much worse crimes. David kills one person (maybe, we never actually \'\'see\'\' him kill Saddler though it\'s strongly implied) and one crow. Rachel has doubtlessly killed \'\'hundreds\'\' of Hork-Bajir Controllers by herself, and Jake and Tobias have both committed mass murder numbering in the tens of thousands of kills. WhatMeasureIsAMook is strongly at play here, but just the same, it is a gross case of MoralMyopia to consider David as crossing the MoralEventHorizon and not the others. You add one, you have to add them all.
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These entries (well, half of them, as Jake, Aldrea, and Marco\\\'s MoralEventHorizon descriptions were around well before I joined the wiki) were added to prove a point - that point being the uselessness of the MoralEventHorizon in relation to Animorphs characters. When making your edits, MegaJ, you pointedly never touched David or Edriss\\\'s descriptions - the implication being that the actions of these two characters made them somehow beyond forgiveness, when as you can clearly see by comparison, the Animorphs commit much worse crimes. David kills exactly one person (maybe, we never actually \\\'\\\'see\\\'\\\' him kill Saddler though it\\\'s strongly implied) and two birds. Rachel has doubtlessly killed \\\'\\\'hundreds\\\'\\\' of Hork-Bajir Controllers by herself, and Jake and Tobias have both committed mass murder numbering in the tens of thousands of kills. WhatMeasureIsAMook is strongly at play here, but just the same, it is a gross case of MoralMyopia to consider David as crossing the MoralEventHorizon and not the others. You add one, you have to add them all.
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The whole point of all this tl;dr: There\'s no good and evil in Animorphs, just war and hard choices, and MoralEventHorizon can\'t really be applied to any Animorphs characters (except \'\'maybe\'\' Visser Three and Crayak, since one is a straight-up TheCaligula and the other is portrayed as pretty much malevolence incarnate, but even Visser Three might have a logical explanation for his villainy - that being he\'s been driven mad, as in \'\'literally\'\' mad, with power and the Andalite arrogance that comes part and parcel with his host). But David and Edriss certainly don\'t commit any worse crimes than the Anis do and deciding whether or not they\'re irredeemable is solely on the reader.
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The whole point of all this tl;dr: there\\\'s no good and evil in Animorphs, just war and hard choices, and MoralEventHorizon can\\\'t really be applied to any Animorphs characters (except \\\'\\\'maybe\\\'\\\' Visser Three and Crayak, since one is a straight-up TheCaligula and the other is portrayed as pretty much malevolence incarnate, but even Visser Three might have a logical explanation for his villainy - that being he\\\'s been driven mad, as in \\\'\\\'literally\\\'\\\' mad, with power and the Andalite arrogance that comes part and parcel with his host). But David and Edriss certainly don\\\'t commit any worse crimes than the Anis do and deciding whether or not they\\\'re irredeemable is solely on the reader.
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