At 12:24 PM 23/10/2007, Mr.T wrote:
>Yes, let's get back to crime fiction and leave topics
like the death
>penalty to other forums or to private
discussions.
I take your point that this topic doesn't interest a lot of
Rare Birds, and this round may have exhausted itself, but
I've said before, and some have agreed, that the relevance of
noir to issues of social justice is one of its attributes. In
the case of the death penalty, what interests me most is the
circularity of the circumstances in the penalty's application
which seems to reinforce noir's criteria of doom. I don't
think that's off topic. Others have found it interesting
enough to respond, and still others have riffed into
different but related directions.
I don't mind being corrected. I've gotten so many
opportunities to become acclimatized to it, but my sense
lately is that as the list has grown it has become less
tolerant of discussions that engage a minority of
subscribers, and overly sensitive to the expression of
strongly held opinions. That's a shame, but is it noir?
Not 2 bucks but my 2 cents, Kerry
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