Anyone who writes fiction so as to speak to the contingent aesthetic standards of a specific spatiotemporal location rather than enduring truths is, in my mind, at worst a propagandist and at best a hack. Translate, pls?
Am I hiding behind the intentional fallacy to ignore the fact that I am disseminating modes of thought which I find distasteful? Well, I'd say there's a distinct difference between, on one hand, *depiction* of modes of thought & actions that are reprehensible, and, on the other, *endorsing* such things in the text.
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Translate, pls?
Am I hiding behind the intentional fallacy to ignore the fact that I am disseminating modes of thought which I find distasteful?
Well, I'd say there's a distinct difference between, on one hand, *depiction* of modes of thought & actions that are reprehensible, and, on the other, *endorsing* such things in the text.