I do not know where you’re coming from here. Pinnochio wants to be a real boy. He’ll be what he eats, so he’s going to eat a real boy so he becomes one himself. Nothing about that matches curiosity or innocence. Pinnochio has a dasterdly, horrific plan, which he aims to enact. Sly is more apt, if not alittle understated.
It’s only dastardly to those who know it’s dastardly.
Pinocchio isn’t human, doesn’t know what being human means and barely understands the concepts of right and wrong as most humans ascribe to. Hell, even we disagree on some points in this regard, let alone a puppet made of wood whose own physical limitations are different from our own.
Even we still have isolated cannibal tribes who eat human flesh as a way of life. To us, that’s evil and horrific, to them it’s just life.
So why wouldn’t a being unbound by our moral standards take that sentence at face value and accept it as simple truth? Why must it be sly and conniving? Because we consider it to be as such? That’s both a foolish and flawed way of thought.
There are many cultural differences around the world, some of which are fought over zealously, and I can’t help but feel that they blind us to all the varied points of view which exist outside our own restrictive norms.
Sly might be the only way you see as horrific, yet your own way of life might seem horrific to others.
To me, the reason you don’t see where I’m coming from is because as a reader, you restricted yourself to a certain perspective. Yours.
I do not know where you’re coming from here. Pinnochio wants to be a real boy. He’ll be what he eats, so he’s going to eat a real boy so he becomes one himself. Nothing about that matches curiosity or innocence. Pinnochio has a dasterdly, horrific plan, which he aims to enact. Sly is more apt, if not alittle understated.
It’s only dastardly to those who know it’s dastardly.
Pinocchio isn’t human, doesn’t know what being human means and barely understands the concepts of right and wrong as most humans ascribe to. Hell, even we disagree on some points in this regard, let alone a puppet made of wood whose own physical limitations are different from our own.
Even we still have isolated cannibal tribes who eat human flesh as a way of life. To us, that’s evil and horrific, to them it’s just life. So why wouldn’t a being unbound by our moral standards take that sentence at face value and accept it as simple truth? Why must it be sly and conniving? Because we consider it to be as such? That’s both a foolish and flawed way of thought.
There are many cultural differences around the world, some of which are fought over zealously, and I can’t help but feel that they blind us to all the varied points of view which exist outside our own restrictive norms.
Sly might be the only way you see as horrific, yet your own way of life might seem horrific to others.
To me, the reason you don’t see where I’m coming from is because as a reader, you restricted yourself to a certain perspective. Yours.