Originally Posted by Daniel_

Stranger in a Strange Land is depraved?

That concept just blows me away - that a book which advocates loving each other in mind and in body, caring for each other, being peaceful to the point of allowing the government to kill you rather than use your immense mystical powers to defend yourself could be considered DEPRAVED and mentioned in the same sense as the depravity of Bateman or DeSade is puzzling to me.

Do not grok in fullness.