Interesting post at Jerz’s Literary Log on a classroom discussion of virtual versus real property, as well as values. Check out: That was not just a bunch of stuff that got destroyed—that was ME!
Extremely intriguing was the justification for murder that the students placed on the reasons, or in this case, from cricket to canary to human baby; when is it okay to retaliate?
But I’m thinking also along the path of the video games and what we accumulate; or for that matter, what’s on our hard drive that we consider "property"? It’s intangible, those stories that we call up from the depths to the clicking of numeric codes that produce a visual image of a written page. I’ve had my hard drive crash with some of my work lost forever; is the "fact" of a story written and filed the same as for example, Katamari Damarcy’s (sp) big ball of stuff?
What’s really real; what’s not?
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology