Yeah-- I think it also ties into Hugo's more general notions about the importance of having/making/building family for everyone, too. I mean, we've seen other Hugo characters who chose some form of duty over personal life, and even for the men, it's always been portrayed as an actual sacrifice, however willing. He may think women have the supercalifragilistic drive for family, but he thinks EVERYONE needs it.
And YES I AM VERY UPSET ABOUT THE SOLDIERS, I always get upset about soldiers, they definitely do Not Good Things but it's not as though they're working in a vacuum with that and it's not like it doesn't have all kinds of costs for them TOO, I can have sympathy for them as people without condoning the things they do or a particular cause. And these soldiers are being WAY humanized for us. Which...I actually like? one thing reading any real amount of battlefield stories shows is that people are REALLY VARIED on that score; maybe last week these guys burned a village, or massacred a DIFFERENT group of soldiers, but right now they've got this one thing they can do apart from all that and I AM VERY UPSET ABOUT EVERYTHING.
And oh geez oh geez I just want this whole crew to go home and raise these kids with lots of blankets and lovely meals and all.
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Re: 1.1.1- General Emotions
Date: 2014-04-22 06:33 am (UTC)And YES I AM VERY UPSET ABOUT THE SOLDIERS, I always get upset about soldiers, they definitely do Not Good Things but it's not as though they're working in a vacuum with that and it's not like it doesn't have all kinds of costs for them TOO, I can have sympathy for them as people without condoning the things they do or a particular cause. And these soldiers are being WAY humanized for us. Which...I actually like? one thing reading any real amount of battlefield stories shows is that people are REALLY VARIED on that score; maybe last week these guys burned a village, or massacred a DIFFERENT group of soldiers, but right now they've got this one thing they can do apart from all that and I AM VERY UPSET ABOUT EVERYTHING.
And oh geez oh geez I just want this whole crew to go home and raise these kids with lots of blankets and lovely meals and all.