C.S. Lewis and his Narnia.

I was recently reading to my child before bedtime. He loved it, and it really made me think. Two moments from "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" stood out. 1. When the evil White Witch ruled Narnia, she only killed those who directly disobeyed her or opposed her authority. Or rather, she didn't kill them (!), but turned them to stone. A dozen? Two? In any case, not many. And not forever, as it turned out later. But our "good" heroes, after defeating her, committed a real genocide:

Their reign was long and happy. First, they spent a lot of time finding the surviving minions of the White Witch and destroying them. For a long time, nasty creatures lurked in the wild corners... In one place, a witch appeared, in another, a man-eater. In one place, a werewolf was seen, in another, they told stories about a kikimora. But finally, all the evil tribe was eradicated.

Just like that, simple and straightforward. If you don't believe in the bright ideals of good and democracy, we'll get you! Everyone - from old to young. Just try to appear (!) in some wild corner (!!!) - and you're done for. We instill double standards in children from an early age so that it will be easier to brainwash them later. And the attitude is: "Why should we pity them? They are nasty, godless pagans/Muslims/communists!" 2. Somewhere in the middle of the story, the evil queen turned a family, either beavers or rabbits, I don't remember, and our mischievous boy into stone. I immediately thought that the author was leaving a "gun on the wall" so that at the end of the book, it would fire - when the mischievous boy is "corrected," he would remember the poor animals and call for them to be turned back. With a subsequent happy ending - everyone is happy, everyone is laughing. But it wasn't meant to be. That's what good is like. Simple, fair, and very, very good :)