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"Ender's Game" movie faces a boycott

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Re: "Ender's Game" movie faces a boycott

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I wonder if the people signing this would also boycott anything run or owned by Middle Eastern royalty where laws that Card promotes both exist and are enforced.

I'm someone who has spent a lot of my life trying, often failing, to "be good". More and more, it seems like an impossible goal:

On the one side you can retreat to the woods and live off of roots and berries trying not to do any direct harm. But then, depending on your privilege, you leave on the table so many opportunities to steer the ship of society in a less harmful direction.

Or, at the other end of the spectrum you can yield all reaponsibility for your direct actions, instead throwing yourself into the wheeling and dealing of systems of harm, trying to invest what privilege you have to gain leverage so that you can make a bigger difference, focusing only on some theoretical calculus of your global influence, measuring yourself by your imagined net global effect.

Or, more likely, you pick something in between. In the end, we all make a personal decision about what we are willing to sacrifice.

I often use oil, even though I know it's harmful, because I think my boycott of it would cost the world more than it would gain. I could be wrong, but that's my best guess based on my (flawed) understanding of my self and my world.

And I may boycott Ender's Game and I do not think that's hypocritical. It's just an acknowledgement that there are limits to our power and we must choose our battles.

Re: "Ender's Game" movie faces a boycott

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I wonder if the people signing this would also boycott anything run or owned by Middle Eastern royalty where laws that Card promotes both exist and are enforced.

Of course not, it's much easier to feel self-righteous boycotting one of the greatest living science fiction authors than boycotting the oil that funds this sort of thing. Gay marriage is legal in the US, and rightly so. Neither Orson Scott Card nor middle-eastern oil will change that.

> one of the greatest living science fiction authors

Oh please. Ender's Game is a classic. The rest of his work is worse, and the recent Shadow stuff is execrable.

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The existance (or none existance) of god is unprovable. I prefer to ignore the possible threat of something that could exist (or not). Otherwise I would never get anything done.

p.s.: Not meant to fight, just an additional perspective.

Re: "Ender's Game" movie faces a boycott

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It seems like a terrible thing to do to the hundreds of potentially nice people that worked hard on this movie. People will boycott this because of peer pressure, and to follow the crowd. People don't boycott the countless movies based on Roald Dahl books, even though it's very common knowledge that he held strong anti-semitic views. Yes, I think his views are terrible, but that's not going to stop me enjoying his wo…

Nice people will know for next time not to work on projects that stand to enrich bigoted fuckheads.

Alternately, these nice people could have Googled him before agreeing to work with the guy.

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The existance (or none existance) of god is unprovable. I prefer to ignore the possible threat of something that could exist (or not). Otherwise I would never get anything done. p.s.: Not meant to fight, just an additional perspective.

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The existance (or none existance) of god is unprovable. I prefer to ignore the possible threat of something that could exist (or not). Otherwise I would never get anything done. p.s.: Not meant to fight, just an additional perspective.

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