with the idea of killing people.

 Lawrence Kohlberg, _Essays on Moral Development_ , vol. 1 (New York: Harper & Row, 1981), 409-412.

 Kohlberg, _Essays on Moral Development_ , 12.

 Carol Gilligan, _In a Different Voice_ (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1982).

 For a rich discussion of these issues, see Lawrence Blum, "Gilligan and Kohlberg: Implications for Moral Theory," _Ethics_ 98 (1988): 472-491.

 I would like to thank Richard Brown and Bill Irwin for invaluable comments on style and substance. I'd especially like to thank Kevin Decker for patience and perseverance as well as insight and gentle but firm prodding to improve this in every way possible. And above all, thanks to Patty Blum for being the best possible editor and wife.
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**SARAH CONNOR'S STAIN**

_Jennifer Culver_

Come on, me? The motherwe don't blame you if you still like the films. We do, too. Aside from their obvious entertainment value, these types of movies stir our imagination. When asked to explain his impressive discoveries, Albert Einstein once said he felt that "imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

Nothing stretches your imagination quite like fiction, especially science fiction. Where else, except in fiction, could you pretend that the impossible is possible and the improbable is happening right now? Fiction helps us to think philosophically because it stimulates the mind, encouraging us to think in new and unexpected ways. Philosophers such as Martha Nussbaum have made similar arguments concerning the value of novels to philosophical study. What is true of novels is equally true of