エヴァンジェリン・リリーさんのインスタグラム写真 - (エヴァンジェリン・リリーInstagram)「I asked you all a question yesterday: is heroic violence a positive or negative thing in children’s entertainment? Many of you wrote thoughtful answers which I enjoyed reading and contemplating so much that I read some of them to my nine-year-old son...but not until I’d asked him what his opinion was first. He said “it’s both”. I asked him to expound and the answers he gave were so interesting - the negative I found most interesting. He didn’t talk about the influence the example could have on his own propensity for violence later in life. Instead he talked about having his eyes opened to the dangers that exist out there in the world, that previously he had been blissfully unaware of. My heart broke a little as he talked about living with a previously unfelt fear that “people like Thanos” are out there and could come for him. I opened the door to that fear. I wrestled with this a little. Is this a good thing? He is, after all, a privileged, white male growing up in privileged countries. Maybe bringing some of the violence of the world into his ivory tower in a way that can’t actually hurt him is a good thing? How will he ever have compassion for those who live perpetually in fear if he has never known it himself? But then, there is the ideal: if possible, the goal is to take unnecessary fear out of every child’s life. And shouldn’t I start where it’s easiest? With my own child, who has the gift of a peaceful life? I love contemplating these types of questions. Not because the longer I contemplate the more the “right” answers become clear, but because the longer I contemplate the more nimble I am able to be in any given situation where I have to make hard decisions in parenting. I don’t think there actually is one right answer-one day I might say “yes” to watching The Hobbit and the next say “no” to playing Fortnight. But if I have chewed on the questions, toyed with different possibilities, the answers are not coming out blind-they’re in me already, on a gut level. The more I have meaningful discourse with people who have different ideas than me on the topic, the easier I will pivot if I find myself in a situation with my son where I realize I am wrong.」2月11日 11時47分