(March 20, 2015 at 11:26 am)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: Brian, must I explain a major difference between religious works and say star trek? Nobody your going to hell if you don't worship Benjamin Sisco, nobody expects you to think there are actually cyborgic people trying to kill you.
The best science fiction uses the backdrop of a science fiction setting to examine something about humanity. Like say forever war by Joe Haldeman. So in other words brian, get the log out of your ass.
Do you know why you don't let si fi go either? Homapathy, perpetual motion machines, Scientology, De Pak Chumphead. Lots of cons are because someone wants it to be true and mixes real words of science into their claptrap.
Entertainment is still entertainment. Si fi is really no different than the Cat In the Hat and Charlotte's Web, Animal Farm and 1984. All of those have questions about morality in them. Si fi isn't the only fiction that makes suggestions about axioms or morality.
I have NO problem finding morals in any work of fiction, si fi or otherwise. But none of them constitute science. Just treat them for what they are, entertainment.