Matthew Lewis wrote:
At 02:46 AM 10/28/98 -0500, David Hart Siegel wrote:
You confuse things here:
Might does NOT make right.
Might, unfortunately, makes VICTORY.
This was, in fact, my point-- that might does not make right, and
that the converse is also true, that right does not make might.
Of course, one could argue that definitions of right and wrong are
made by the victor (just take a look at the word history: his story)
but only if one believes right to be a subjective term.
This sad state of affairs prevails in the real world, and in the more
realistic (and some of the less realistic) fictional worlds.
Frequently, the Right are also the Mighty, but this is set from the
beginning so that Right will triumph in works of fiction(Kenshin is both
Right and Mighty. These really don't have any relation. He was, at one
This is the essence of my challenge. Can you write a fic where right
and might have no relation?
point, Mighty and Wrong, but he was still Victorious.) In the real world,
the Right is frequently the Mighty through Luck or (IMHO)sometimes through
divine intervention.
The Triumph of The UnMighty Right over the Mighty Wrong is frequently
referred to as "David and Goliath", but even then, the Right gain Might
>from an outside source or were somehow truly mighty from the
beginning, (The Help of God, in the example of the source
of the idiom, or, for instance, Protoculture in Macross (The Zentraedi are
Mighty, but the Right have "Song" and "Lyrics", which are Mightier, even
if the Right themselves are weaker.))
This also was mentioned, that the good guys, because they are right,
end up with more power and winning.
I prefer to write so that the good guys win through _cunning_ rather
than brute force, ..
Tactical judo..
There is also the aspect of the bad-guys being internally weak... Evil
being prone to factionalism like you wouldn't believe, especially
Capital 'E' evil.
"Stabbed 43 times in the back.. worst case of suicide I _ever_ saw!"
There is strength, and there is strength. You are not always comparing
apples with apples.