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I couldn’t decide for a while what direction I wanted to go with this next part, but I finally landed on something less complex than I was considering. What it comes down to is how we react to death depending on our opinion of the person who died. If we view them as an enemy, or corrupt in some way, we act as though their death doesn’t matter, or even that we’re glad they’re dead. Which is perfectly reasonable. But if we like the person we take it very personally. If we don’t know the person then we almost always assume that they were good & react appropriately until something shows that they were awful. Even in death context matters.

Anyway, I was thinking about having Thomas find a Klan manual in the safe along with the other stuff. Because I know that it would instantly shift the audience to the side of the cast. That’s something I actually had happen once as well. Of course having a Klan manual doesn’t make you a clansman any more than having a bible makes you Christian, but the assumption at first is always that you wouldn’t have it unless you were interested in it. which doesn’t take research in to account.

Thomas Jefferson famously owned a Koran, but he wasn’t an Islamist. He was trying to find passages to help him argue with Muslim pirates. Anyway, all that is as may be. I chose against it because it would basically turn this blog post in to weeks of debating the revelation in the comic, & I didn’t want to do that. I’m more than ready to move on to the next thing, but I’m stuck tying up the loose ends.