The Newbie and Short Questions thread

[pengbuzz]

31 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

 Good and Evil are a matter of perspective, not fact.

Not true. Otherwise, you wouldn't put locks on your doors.

[aurance]

7 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

One thing to remember, both as a storytelling principle and a general fact of life... the right thing and the nice thing are not always the same thing.

That's a theme that recurs a lot in Macross Delta, especially the second movie where it's basically the antagonist's whole deal.

Moral absolutes like "good" and "evil" are a reductive oversimplification that ignores the inherent subjectivity of morality and wrongly assumes that the same values are universal across cultures and time periods.  So very many things that we today would consider historical atrocities were committed by people who firmly, sincerely, and completely believed that what they were doing was morally correct.  That's one of the reasons sci-fi loves to play with the concept so much.  Good and Evil are a matter of perspective, not fact.

I don't disagree, but what you're saying is also an oversimplification from a narrative point of view. It's a spectrum that we, as the consuming audience, come to some some sort of rough consensus about.

[Seto Kaiba]

9 hours ago, aurance said:

I don't disagree, but what you're saying is also an oversimplification from a narrative point of view. It's a spectrum that we, as the consuming audience, come to some some sort of rough consensus about.

There's also the question of what moral position the author intended to depict too...

Macross Delta is complicated by the fact that a good chunk of its backstory was jettisoned into manga side stories.

[Big s]

I will say that even though as a comparison between Gundam and Macross that at least Macross seems to end a conflict while Gundam just has sides fighting eachother a second, third and more times without a real reason to go on other than a corporation wanting to make money off both sides or something.