: Re: What do you do when your message could be dangerous? I've long believed that for a novel (or any kind of fiction) to have a certain weight or power behind it, there must be a message. I've

@Jennifer354

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I will supplement Secespitus' excellent answer with this morsel: Make very sure that the consequence of running with the dangerous idea really are consequences.

The consequences should be natural. There should be no leaps of plausibility. The disaster should resemble the Fall of Rome, in which the things done by the Romans were the proximate cause, and not like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, which was more like a punishment than a consequence.

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