Ah, yes, translations. The Italians use to say "Traddutore, traditore", which means "translator = traitor". I'm often shocked by the lack of accuracy displayed by so-called professional translators.
Interesting discussion in the comments about the concepts of good and evil. Yes, we live in an overly politically correct world, and people prefer to think in absolutes. There are no monsters, except in Sci-Fi and horror books. There are just humans, and Homo sapiens, as a superpredator, sometimes does terrible things. Which doesn't make them less our fellow humans. This truth might be too hard to stomach for some people, but I believe it to be true nevertheless.
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Date: 2009-12-29 11:20 am (UTC)Interesting discussion in the comments about the concepts of good and evil. Yes, we live in an overly politically correct world, and people prefer to think in absolutes.
There are no monsters, except in Sci-Fi and horror books. There are just humans, and Homo sapiens, as a superpredator, sometimes does terrible things. Which doesn't make them less our fellow humans. This truth might be too hard to stomach for some people, but I believe it to be true nevertheless.