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14502328 No.14502328 [Reply] [Original]

How do I write a character whose philosophy and politics are completely opposed to mine?

>> No.14502339

Make him really smart, basically

>> No.14502350

>>14502328
Is that the guy from Moomins?

>> No.14502353

>>>/adv/

>> No.14502361

>>14502350
yes, that's snufkin after he grew up and got married in the later series

>> No.14502362

>>14502361
Ah yes, Snuff King

>> No.14502364

>>14502328
Why would this be hard? If you aren't a dofus idealog you will have taken the time to understand why people who disagree with you think what they do.

>> No.14502388
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14502388

Write him as an ugly, moronic and loud mouthed asshole

>> No.14502401

>>14502328
Just dont be an ideologue, it’s not hard. Create a specific context of information and build up to an ultimate conclusion that is separate from your own. If you’ve read the Greeks it shouldn’t be hard.

>> No.14503316

>>14502401
How are the greeks related to this?

>> No.14503477

>>14503316
They make good food,
und Man ist, was Man isst

>> No.14503537

>>14503316
When the Greeks wanted illustrate a point, they did it by making up a character who held the opposing views and created a dialogue in which they were right and the character they made was wrong.

>> No.14503623

accept that under certain circumstances any position is right.

subvert your reader's expectation by showing that said character held the WRONG opinion because the circumstance was unjustified and they were mistaken in failing to properly collect information or assess what was going on, they let their BIASES lead them to the conclusion they wanted in order to self-justify their morally grey actions are correct and pure.

>> No.14504101

>>14503537
By Greeks, do you just mean Plato? I've never seen another writer explicitly do this.

>> No.14504111

>>14502328
Raskolnikov eventually comes to agree with Dostoyevsky's slave morality thinking at the end though.

>> No.14504194

>>14504111
Imagine misunderstanding someone's philosophy and religion so much. What once was just a dislike has become a strong hatred.

I despise you, butterfly.

>> No.14504205

>>14504194
All of Christendom is slave morality neojudaism.

>> No.14504225

>>14504205
so? the lash of the whip is far sweeter than the illusion of power granted by the flick of the wrist that holds it.

i'm pretty sure isobel is my favorite bjork piece.

>> No.14504644

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