This Doesn't Happen to Normal People

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Sunday, March 30, 2003

Real life is not as easy as fiction. Fiction has to make sense-there have to be clear cut reasons for wrongdoing and solid definitions of good and bad: bad guys hurt people, good guys help people. But in real life the morality is more...clouded. There are men who may be good at heart but who do bad things-and men who may be rotten inside who occassionally perform acts of kindness. And each rationalizes both away. Nobody thinks they're evil; everybody has an excuse for what they do. Which is why we watch movies, why we read books. We want something that makes sense, something we can see and understand the reasons for. Life doesn't provide us that. And so we turn to fiction.
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