[Anvilhead]

I agree. Writing about an evil character or action is nowhere near the same as ACUTALLY DOING IT. Most of the books I've enjoyed had a great deal of moral ambivalence.

One of the primary reasons for Batman's popularity is because his only superpower is psychosis. Benevolent, certainly, but he is still psychotic.

One of my favorite books growing up was Snow Crash. It has a brief and consensual sexual encounter with a man and a 14-15 year old girl. I can't imagine that the writer was endorsing sexual abuse. And I certainly never thought that that was an invitation to molestation.

[Corin Stormhands]

Writing about an evil character or action is nowhere near the same as ACUTALLY DOING IT.

Well, of course. But when you view this along with Webb's over issues, with women and minorities, his anger issues and more, I think there's a sufficient cause to at least ask questions about who the real Jim Webb is.

[weegee]

Writing about an evil character or action is nowhere near the same as ACUTALLY DOING IT

Like writing sexually explicit instant messages to a page isn't the same as actually DOING IT?