tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28127675.post4059253896330193962..comments2024-03-14T12:01:17.079-04:00Comments on ROBERT BIDINOTTO: News stories that make me write vigilante thrillersRobert Bidinottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11777797272563802442noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28127675.post-32066492924232790232011-11-16T15:50:35.045-05:002011-11-16T15:50:35.045-05:00@ Mike: That's a brilliant observation. It'...@ Mike: That's a brilliant observation. It's one of the myriad contradictions in the leftist Narrative about how the world works.<br /><br />@ Erne: Glad my advice about pricing is working for you. I'll have to pick up your book. Right now, I've been utterly swamped with both reading and writing tasks, but I'll get to it as soon as I can.<br /><br />@ Vincent: Dylan Hunter is meant to be a fantasy character. He provides a kind of emotional catharsis for many of us who seek justice in a world where it's so frequently absent. However, Dylan has skills and resources very few real-life people would have. Also, he has a strict code that almost <i>no</i> real-life person has. In reality, such a character is almost certain to swerve off the moral rails and become just a purveyor of arbitrary, unrestrained violence completely disproportionate to the offense -- in short, a symptom of the very injustice he intended to fight. So, I do <i>not</i> endorse or hope for a wave of vigilantism, which would quickly break down into subjective, indiscriminate blood-letting. I hope instead that <i>HUNTER</i> and its hero sensitize society to the need for radical reforms in our legal system -- reforms that would render moot the impulse to seek vigilante justice. <br /><br />As for "Dexter," I've not watched the show or read the novels on which it is based. I understand that he's a sociopath who targets other sociopaths. Dylan Hunter, by contrast, is completely healthy, psychologically, not a damaged hero or antihero.<br /><br />@ Diane: It's sickening, of course, that the supposed citadels of civilization -- college campuses -- are so often havens for the lowest scum on the planet. What I hope to do through the <i>HUNTER</i> stories is to shine a light of moral clarity that cuts through the murky atmosphere of pseudo-intellectual excuse-making that originates in the universities and spreads like cancer throughout the culture.Robert Bidinottohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11777797272563802442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28127675.post-64216397617550167552011-11-16T14:57:26.468-05:002011-11-16T14:57:26.468-05:00For many years, I worked in the community college ...For many years, I worked in the community college environment, which is one of fear and multicultural bias. If a faculty member dared to object to any action taken by another faculty or administrator, they were doomed, with no recourse. The only option was to quit your job. I did not witness rape; however, I often saw unwelcomed sexual behaviours overlooked in order to keep working. I understand the urge for justice which your hero in "Hunter" implements.<br />Thank you for your work.<br />Diane ViewingViewinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04254715346787618095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28127675.post-81660309050047240752011-11-14T18:30:28.421-05:002011-11-14T18:30:28.421-05:00Great post Mr Bidinotto.
I only hope your Dylan Hu...Great post Mr Bidinotto.<br />I only hope your Dylan Hunter stories will inspire some courageous guy to do JUSTICE.<br />By the way, what do you think of the Dexter Morgan character?<br />He is a maverick and he may be killing more to satisfy his dark passenger than to do justice, but as I watch the show, I can't stop admiring him.Vincent Lehonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28127675.post-32515720325320345932011-11-13T22:58:26.262-05:002011-11-13T22:58:26.262-05:00"If your knee-jerk response to this angry pos..."If your knee-jerk response to this angry post is indignation over my words, rather than over the unspeakable atrocities that provoke them, then you've imbibed the same toxic premise that is killing our civilization: the premise that the only real "evils" are anyone's demands for self-responsibility, and any moral judgments that proceed from that insistence."<br />Robert, that line is applicable to my own novel. I loved Hunter and I hope, and fully expect, you will like mine as much. An Act of Self-Defense is about the collapse of our economy and individual liberty. It is selling well thanks to your advice to sell the eBook at $3.99. see my reviews at Amazon or at ernelewis.com.erne lewishttp://www.ernelewis.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28127675.post-72241977237272183332011-11-13T21:25:49.426-05:002011-11-13T21:25:49.426-05:00There is an interesting contradiction on the left....There is an interesting contradiction on the left. I've asked about highly productive people being over-taxed and over regulated: "What if they just stop working? What if they just stop creating because they're not being compensated for their efforts?" The answer: "Those people will always keep doing what they do". As if their nature is to work. Evidently their nature will never change, they will always work hard even without external incentive. But suggest that the low-life scum will never change and it's useless to try to "rehabilitate" them and you're regarded as a monster.Mike Ericksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04156380809636042486noreply@blogger.com