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Interview #643: Elf Fantasy Fair Interview with Robert Jordan - Kurafire, Entry #10

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Do you have an underlying purpose with your books? Something other than to entertain?

Robert Jordan

Of course. You always like to write about things, talking about things. The primary goal is always for it to be a good story, to entertain, but at the same time, it would be very nice if you’re able to make people think about certain things, in my case the whole notion of right and wrong, good and evil. There is a popular view today, that, right and wrong are simply two sides of a coin. Dependent, looking in the mirror in different angles. It all depends. It comes from the modern misinterpretation of situational ethics. Today there are no ethical rules, there are no ethical standards. Dues are all because they hold the law. Fact is, there is right, there is wrong. Sometimes it is hard to tell the difference, sometimes it’s very easy to tell the difference. Sometimes you study very closely for what is the right thing to do here, and you still make the wrong choice. But even if it’s hard to find the difference, even if you realize later that you made the wrong choice, it’s worth the effort to try. I have some basic rules in my life. I try not to cause harm, to anyone , unintentionally. I try not to give offense to anyone, unintentionally. There are many people who offend, not because it’s intentional necessarily, but because they can’t be bothered not to. There are many people who cause harm, because they can’t be bothered not to. I don’t mean that they go around beating people in the streets, necessarily, but, they harm people, in many various ways. Simply because they can’t be bothered not to. The other people aren’t really real , real to them, no, they’re the only ones that are real. And everybody else is no more than a checker on a board. And I’d like my readers to be more than that.

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