2. Rawlsian social contract theory, maybe? Inequities can be supported so long as everyone is better off than they would have been under another system?
Makes sense. I'm increasingly tempted by my theory that they represent all the kludges and improvisations of actual moral decision-making, given that they are kind of positioned as Everyman and Everywoman here.
3. Good point. However, consider also the claims of Neutral Good (Granny Weatherwax) and Chaotic Good (V).
The really scary thing about Dredd is that he's a kind of deconstruction of all kinds of Lawful Neutral impulses - that philosopher-kings would be a great idea if we could just get rid of all the human imperfections and corruptibility in them, that "there ought to be a law" is a plausible way of stopping any kind of behaviour you don't like, that if you've done nothing wrong you've got nothing to fear. Dredd's world is a Lawful Neutral dystopia that's as horrible as any explicitly evil one.
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Date: 2009-06-01 08:06 pm (UTC)Makes sense. I'm increasingly tempted by my theory that they represent all the kludges and improvisations of actual moral decision-making, given that they are kind of positioned as Everyman and Everywoman here.
3. Good point. However, consider also the claims of Neutral Good (Granny Weatherwax) and Chaotic Good (V).
The really scary thing about Dredd is that he's a kind of deconstruction of all kinds of Lawful Neutral impulses - that philosopher-kings would be a great idea if we could just get rid of all the human imperfections and corruptibility in them, that "there ought to be a law" is a plausible way of stopping any kind of behaviour you don't like, that if you've done nothing wrong you've got nothing to fear. Dredd's world is a Lawful Neutral dystopia that's as horrible as any explicitly evil one.