Orlion Blight

Literally occurred to me at the end of the posting. Had to give myself a good smack for almost overlooking that!

Douglas Adams wasn't funny and neither were the Hitchhiker books! Firefly would have been canceled even if Fox didn't air the episodes out of order and various timeslots because it just wasn't that good a show

@Slowswift It's certainly the much better flag! And please tell me the person who recommended the one that says "Salt Lake City" has been exiled. That is just...a depressing flag!

This is very messy, so a lot of my critiques will be to point out that you need to be focused. First, what are you defining as killing? This is a complex question, you should narrow it down to whether you mean "cause death either accidentally or on purpose" or "murder". That will help with your moral question (i.e. the morality of accidentally killing someone could be different from premeditated murder) Your adaptability sidetrack is odd. By that argument, bacteria, viruses and plants would all be subject to the "is it moral to kill them" question since they all adapt to their surroundings... often faster than we do! But you won't find many that will argue that they are conscious. Speaking of consciousness: this is always in reference to human consciousness when one says they can't/ wouldn't kill someone. It's a recognition of humanity, not some nebulous emergent property of sufficiently complex nervous activity of a centralized brain. In other words, an animal's consciousness and thoughts would be completely alien to us aside from some base desires it shares with us. So stick first with human consciousness and deal with the morality of killing animals as a separate question. Other than that, read your David Hume. Like I said before, this is messy, but I'll point out you defeat the point "if we do not kill someone they will kill someone else" with your statement later on that you could not kill someone even if they threatened your life. This causes your "moral grief" in the second thought experiment because a friend would die because you could not kill. This even though the "cost benefit analysis" demonstrates someone would die in this scenario, so why not the aggressor which would be the "preferred" outcome? In this case, you are not treating the aggressor as a moral agent, rather taking on all the fault and his decision as your own. In both your cases, two people are making two moral choices: you are choosing not to kill and the aggressor is choosing to kill. You are responsible for your own choice, not his. Well I would like to break this down into 3 parts. 1. The fact that we say killing is bad. 2. If we didn't kill people those people would kill other people. 3. We wouldn't be here if killing never happened. Existence simply is. If you didn't exist, you're not going to be around to regret it. Besides, as a Mormon, you believe that everyone existed beforehand as spirits and were promised a chance to inhabit bodies as part of God's Grand Plan. It wouldn't be much of a Grand Plan if some of these spirits couldn't be born into bodies because the right people weren't killed at the right time.

Like I've said before in other corners: the best part of Harry Potter are the explanations that fans give it. Take Snape, for example. He is a very generic tropey bad-guy-who-is-really-a-good-guy whose entire character development in the series can be summarized in two words: teenage angst. That's his entire motivation for everything. If it weren't for the fans, he would never be considered a good character. Well, also Alan Rickman helps quite a bit, but we are focusing on the books here.

The White-Luck Warrior by R Scott Bakker. I'm enjoying it thoroughly thus far. Don't judge me!

I mean... I've all ready judged the movie BEFORE it came out!

Looks like they cast the title character for Ms Marvel. Kamala Khan will be played by...Iman Vellani! Who's Iman Vellani? She's the Canadian that plays Kamala Khan!

Hellhouse from Richard Matheson is fantastic.

Mwahaha! I could easily post three songs of length 20+ minutes! I won't, though...or will I? In no particular order: Paradise Lost by Symphony X: A song based on part of the John Milton poem. I'm a sucker when songs about literature are "done right" Plains of Forever by Keldian: A somewhat meditative song to calm the existential anxieties of the soul La Cantata Del Diablo por Mägo de Oz: gotta include at least one 20+ minute song after my threats This also seems to be very relevant to 2020 US, so it took the place of another Mägo de Oz song from the same album.

It's not nearly enough to colonize the galaxy!

Yes, people who are on the world now tend not to be taken care of. I feel that's less of a "there are not enough resources to go around" and a "there are ideologies that are dominant that encourage treating many as subhuman". I said ideologies, mods, and did not specify! Calm down!

If it makes you feel better, there's no reason to reasonably want to stop population growth. Really, the only reasons are 1) subscribing to outdated theories which have been aptly demonstrated to be wrong by now [we should have had societal collapse by now if they were true] 2) Genocidal intent/white supremacy. Since you are just learning, it has more to do with your sources, not you personally. Accordingly, it's always good to learn how to question sources and arguments

I mean... it happened billions of years before the plot I think there are mechs in there, sometimes

The ending to WFR pissed me off sooo much!

Neon Genesis Evangelion on Netflix!

First, it does look good! But second and more importantly: where's Ahsoka?!

Seems to me that a line chart could make a better visual if you are looking for trends, changing or otherwise.

The Wrath of N'kai by a Josh Reynolds

Congrats! May your title become red with the blood of your enemies!

Looks "meh" to me. We'll probably get a merely serviceable adaptation. I'm not expecting much else.

Everyone has a disability. Brandon's is NOT WRITING THE LOST METAL! *grumble snarl* Also, the Mistborn series is better than Stormlight

I think I'll start that after my current rewatch of She-ra (so, since I'm at the fifth season, that should be soon)

Getting excited for Marvel's Avengers this week! The Beta was fun enough, and the more I see of the cutscenes, the more I'm satisfied with the voice acting. I'm assuming I'll have fun with the released product!