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<blockquote data-quote="Kramodlog" data-source="post: 7064336" data-attributes="member: 55961"><p>I just finished <em>Ender's Game</em>. The moral values presented at the end of the book made me feel like this page turner was propaganda. </p><p></p><p>It is clear that the novel is an expose on the "end justifying the means". The issue with that is that the situation is loaded toward feeling that extermination of the Formics was necessary. The military characters presents the situation as if there are no other courses of action than the use of violence. In this case the complete extermination of the Formics. It becomes clear that the discourse is that overpopulation will lead us to fight for terrotiry and it will be the ones who are the most ruthless who will win. The aliens are ant-like and do not have individual personality, so they are a metaphore for communists that must be exterminated or else they'll take over the world (so much for that theory).</p><p></p><p>There are contradiction in this justification. One character says to Ender that even if the aliens didn't knew they were killing intelligent being when they killed humans, the aliens still are responsable for what they did. But at the end of the novel it is revealed to Ender that he just exterminated an entire alien race, other characters say it wasn't his fault because he didn't know what he was doing since that info was hidden from him. To add insult to injury, Card then has the alien race pardon Ender for their extermination. It felt like a sick twist to make us swallow the genocide (well, xenocide). </p><p></p><p>I hope this book is only popular because it is a power fantasy for bullied video game nerds. Not because space-Hitler is cool.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kramodlog, post: 7064336, member: 55961"] I just finished [I]Ender's Game[/I]. The moral values presented at the end of the book made me feel like this page turner was propaganda. It is clear that the novel is an expose on the "end justifying the means". The issue with that is that the situation is loaded toward feeling that extermination of the Formics was necessary. The military characters presents the situation as if there are no other courses of action than the use of violence. In this case the complete extermination of the Formics. It becomes clear that the discourse is that overpopulation will lead us to fight for terrotiry and it will be the ones who are the most ruthless who will win. The aliens are ant-like and do not have individual personality, so they are a metaphore for communists that must be exterminated or else they'll take over the world (so much for that theory). There are contradiction in this justification. One character says to Ender that even if the aliens didn't knew they were killing intelligent being when they killed humans, the aliens still are responsable for what they did. But at the end of the novel it is revealed to Ender that he just exterminated an entire alien race, other characters say it wasn't his fault because he didn't know what he was doing since that info was hidden from him. To add insult to injury, Card then has the alien race pardon Ender for their extermination. It felt like a sick twist to make us swallow the genocide (well, xenocide). I hope this book is only popular because it is a power fantasy for bullied video game nerds. Not because space-Hitler is cool. [/QUOTE]
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