[ExI] Heroism without self-sacrifice
Bryan Bishop
kanzure at gmail.com
Fri Mar 7 12:51:22 UTC 2008
On Friday 07 March 2008, Anne Corwin wrote:
> I know there's a lot of dramatic tension inherent in the "struggle
> to resolve who wins in a zero-sum game", but it would be interesting
> to see if similarly satisfying levels of dramatic tension could be
> achieved in a setting where everyone manages to win in some way.
That's interesting. Perhaps the dramatic tension can be envoked from the
reader by well-done written work that can draw the reader into a trance
to figure out just how this "nonzerosumness" works out?
- Bryan
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