I may be answering a rhetorical question, but...
Terrill Lankford:
> Is criticizing a movie or book that you have
not
> actually seen or read:
> A) moral
> B) immoral
> C) amoral
> D) none of the above
The act of criticizing in itself would seem to follow the
same pattern morality alone reserves to itself-- judging
objectively that which one has not experienced subjectively
in order to separate one's self from all that is associated
with it...yet the critique itself is neither moral nor
immoral, as the narrative voice that is charged with making
the critique becomes objectified in the act, & may just
as easily be held up as an example of irony as one of
earnestness.
MORAL, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of
right. Having the quality of general expediency.
--Ambrose Bierce, THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY
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