UA - Untouchable Archetype

[Kevin Mowery]

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> From: Bryant Durrell <durrell at innocence.com>
> To: UA at purpletape.cs.uchicago.edu
> Subject: Re: UA - Untouchable Archetype
> Date: Saturday, February 06, 1999 10:35 PM
> 
> Gregory Paul Stolze writes:

> > Here's the question: is there a dark side to the relentless lawman?  I
like
> > to have archetypes with good and bad interpretations (though there are
a
> > few all-bad archetypes, and presumably a few all good ones).  
> 
> Wouldn't that be the lawman who upholds the wrong law?
> 
> "You two love each other, don't you?  That's a shame, kid.  Because
> I'm a law man, and while I respect love, I respect the law more.
> 
> "And the law says two guys shouldn't be in bed together."

	I was thinking along these lines.  The lawman who is only interested in
the law, or who figures *his* law is the right law for everyone.  Or the
lawman who upholds the letter of the law while abusing its spirit.


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