In article <Xns9A8CF268F6D3damouthsanrrcom@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Daniel Damouth <damouth@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I'm not clear on why, in "Moonlight", it's bad to be a vampire. It
> clearly doesn't stop one from being a good person. Mick seems to have a
> psychopathology about it. In this episode he alluded to "sucking human
> blood" as the worst part about being a vampire, but we know a vampire
> doesn't have to suck blood to stay live. A vampire must simply consume
> blood, and it doesn't even have to be human. No one has to suffer.
> Other disadvantages of vampires include not tolerating extended bouts
> of sunlight, some sort of inability to appreciate food, and... what?
Rotting away, such that you have to sleep in an freezer and can be found
by the scent of your decay.
>
> Compared to immense improvements in sight, hearing, strength, healing,
> and (above all) life span, those problems seem minor. I'd choose to be
> a vampire in a second.
>
> -Dan Damouth
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