Creating the Innocent Killer: Ender's Game, Intention, and Morality

In this piece published 4 years ago, John Kessel eviscerates the moral underpinnings of Ender's Game, the SF classic that pushed Orson Card to fame. “The power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you”

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