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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

This was a hard book to finish, although I'm glad to have read it.  It was a challenging read because there is nothing more revolting to me than a passive-aggressive - and the characters themselves are all passive-aggressive.  Yet it's fodder for the meta-oriented.   Isn't civility really a form of slave morality?  Imagine a prosecutor files false charges against your client.  Filing criminal charges is devastating to the client.  And yet if the client's lawyer wrote a letter saying, "You're a scum bag mother fucker and I hope you die," he'd have a judge up his ass for incivility.  Yet what is truly uncivil - ruining a guy's life by falsely accusing him of a crime, or writing a snarky letter? In today's narcissistic world (which is no different from the 1800's scenes depicted in Pride and Prejudice), appearances supersede substance...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on November 10, 2010 (boomark / email).