That kind of thing makes me think there's something deeply wrong with the definition of virtue, and not just virture as it relates to virginity.
Frex, why are villains in fiction generally considered more interesting than good characters? It might be that people have aggreesion that they can't express in real life, so they move it into fiction, but I think it's because "good" characters generally don't have goals. They just respond to "bad" characters. This is an overly limited idea of goodness.
In Joy Chant's "Red Moon, Black Mountain", there is a comment about losing innocence, to the effect that keeping your innocence means remaining ignorant of evil, and letting it exist, instead of losing your innocence and actually doing something about it.
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Frex, why are villains in fiction generally considered more interesting than good characters? It might be that people have aggreesion that they can't express in real life, so they move it into fiction, but I think it's because "good" characters generally don't have goals. They just respond to "bad" characters. This is an overly limited idea of goodness.
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