I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.
Dean KoontzThen what are you? An electronic Hannibal Lector? You can't eat my liver with fava beans through a modem, you know.
Dean KoontzBecause people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate.
Dean KoontzThat was one of the most fundamental and sacred duties good friends and families performed for one another! They tended the flame of memory, so no oneโs death meant an immediate vanishment from the world; in some sense the deceased would live on after their passing, at least as long as those who loved them lived. Such memories were an essential weapon against the chaos of life and death, a way to ensure some continuity from generation to generation, an order of endorsement and meaning.
Dean Koontz