[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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