Subject: Re: [FFML] A Challenge: Might vs. Right
From: David Johnston
Date: 10/29/1998, 8:57 AM
To: Matthew Lewis
CC: David Hart Siegel <dhs28@columbia.edu>, ffml@fanfic.com

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?

Easily.  Just let the bad guys win.  Why would I want to?  

This isn't a challenge at all.  People let the good guys win
because they want to, not because it's difficult to do it the
other way.