Game of Thrones source George R.R. Martin has definitely come in up with some of the most shocking way to stamp out people , from gasp - inducing beheadings to blood - spattered Red Weddings . But in an interview with Rolling Stone , Martin says the path we engage in innovative warfare is far more beastly .
When speak about the compunction that some of his characters feel after they kill , Martin talks about the age of Medieval - era violence which required warriors to face and recognise their victim . He compare it unfavourably to today ’s anonymous , almost video game - mind-set of putting to death :
withdraw human life should always be a very serious matter . There ’s something very nigh up about the Middle Ages . You ’re taking a sharp slice of brand and hack at someone ’s head , and you ’re getting swash with his rake , and you ’re hear his thigh-slapper . In some fashion maybe it ’s more barbarous that we ’ve isolate ourselves from that . We ’re correct up mechanisms where we can drink down human beings with drones and projectile where you ’re sitting at a console table and bid the button . We never have to hear their whimpering , or listen them begging for their mother , or dying in horrible realities around us . I do n’t know if that ’s needfully such a near thing .
Martin also discusses the practice of torture , something that ’s featured regularly in his storyline :
You see this same moral struggle all through story . It ’s always the interrogative sentence , when you ’re at war , do you do whatever it take on to win , or do you actually maintain your own moral monetary standard and ideals ? Should we be waterboarding citizenry ? What if we get valuable data that saves our lives ? Well , even so , are n’t we compromising ourselves ? But if it foreclose another 9/11 , is torture worth it ? I do n’t know , but it ’s a question worth asking . Do you entrust horrible crimes to abide alive so your side should win ?
Martin has a lot of saucy things to say about culture and tale , and theentire interviewis very skillful , even if you ’re not a GoT superfan . [ rove StoneviaVox ]
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