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The UK. I mean, Argentina might WANT to have sovereignty over them, but they don't. Not until they drive the British off.

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Riptor posted...

TC later stated that the initial statement was along the lines of the well known "The foolish man thinks he knows everything, the wise man knows he knows nothing" - which is a saying that deals with ones awareness of just how much there is to know or study in the world/universe. A person of mostly any intelligence level is capable of increasing their knowledge base.

An adult with a genius level IQ, raised in a jungle cut off from civilization would most likely fare worse on a test of 5th grade math than your standard 5th grader. A person could also hold multiple doctorates, but still not be able to understand, let alone solve, differential equations. That's where the distinction between intelligence and knowledge comes in. It's a semantic thing, but I always ask for clarification when posed with questions about "smartness".

I typically define it like this. Intelligence is how much knowledge you have. Wisdom is the insight into said knowledge that allows you to apply it well. Someone who is smart but unwise is the sort of person who might be able to solve astrophysics problems on a napkin but falls for a simple Nigerian Prince scam. Someone with a lot of wisdom but little knowledge is the sort of person who might barely know anything about scams and have no clue what Nigeria is but would figure out that they're proooobably not related to any princes and something is fishy about the whole set-up requiring you to send money to 'get' money.

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The Sims.

I might like Mass Effect more, but it's simply not in the same realm of flexibility and replayability as The Sims. Sure, it's better, but if I had to play one IP for ALL eternity...

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Nah. I'm probably dumb as a rock going by how the customers treat me. Course, I'm also smart enough to know things like that a single low-ranking employee can't change store policy, so I dunno... Eh. I'm still dumb I guess. Just not too dumb.

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Other: Total War.

If that doesn't count then Tales of series.

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Lokarin posted...

Like, something that's good that you just can't stand

There is none because it's too broad a term. For example, if you dislike something good because of its fans and not the product itself than it's 'fandom backlash'. If you dislike something good because you're the member of a rival faction opposed (like during the console wars) than it's a rivalry. There's plenty more to boot.

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Being a CEO and being president are two different things.

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Way to miss the point. The point I'm trying to make is that Trump is used to managerial stress while someone like Bush or Clinton isn't, so it might not affect him as badly.

There is no precedent for the Supreme Court interpreting a law that drastically from its original text to the extent that theyd literally be adding words to it. Theres a difference between trying to decide exactly who the 2nd Amendment applies to because it has too many damn confusing commas in it and adding or the Vice President to the 22nd. One is interpreting the text thats there and the other is assuming that text was inadvertently left off by accident.

What would be more likely would be for Congress to ram a new Amendment through to close the loophole, but it still wouldnt likely apply to Trump even if it magically did pass because it would still have to be ratified and that wouldnt likely be a quick process.

The supreme court isn't full of idiots either. If they see Trump being a shadow-president they'll almost certainly act upon it. As shocking as it sounds the president isn't all-powerful in America. Simply put, however, when I read posts like 'Trump going for a third term' I can't help but think of the paranoia my mother had about Obama attempting to invalidate the election by not leaving the White House. As if Obama could not only opt to do that and there was no check or balance or way to handle the situation and the only outcome would be Obama being president until he decided to leave of his own accord. If it was really possible to do something like that plenty of presidents prior would have done so.

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aDirtyShisno posted...

He also could run as a Vice Presidential candidate and if his running mate won and then resigned hed become the President for another term. Its not expressly disallowed under any of the provisions governing term limits.

He could try but I'm pretty sure that the supreme court would consider someone serving two terms then basically becoming a shadow-president would result in them cracking down and declaring it illegal. Even if they didn't they'd have a hard sell when there would be no way to hide what their plan actually was to the American people. Most likely, even if they succeeded, the courts would oust Trump and make the speaker of the house the active VP.

Short of some massive emergency I just don't think it's possible for Trump to get either a direct or indirect third term. I don't even think he'll want a third term. Take a look at some before and after photos of the presidents from before they entered into office and after they left. It's a VERY stressful job. Trump might be able to handle it better due to experience as a CEO but there's no denying that he's probably going to walk away after 8 years feeling like it's been 16; or 4 feeling like it's been 8 if he doesn't win re-election.

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Lokarin posted...

Rabi-Ribi?

Nnnnope.

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Sexy bunny girls fight my sister.

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Trump will not get a third term. It's illegal and a violation of the constitution. The Supreme Court would unquestionably invalidate his attempt to do so. Not to mention that both the house and senate would side against it. And even if that didn't happen pretty much everyone would refuse to vote for him for a third term simply because they're well aware of the two-term limit. So even if he did, somehow, run via a loophole or the like he'd lose unless he literally ran unopposed or the other candidates were so bad the people would rather break the constitution/bill of rights than let the other person(s) in office.

About the ONLY way I can see Trump getting a third term is if a war was declared that resulted in the capitol being destroyed while basically everyone was inside of it (except Trump of course) as well as managing to kill the candidates right before election and people voting to give him a third term due to an extrenious circumstance. Even then I suspect they'd try to force Pence to become the de-facto president rather than letting Trump have three.

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Hop103 posted...

Nope, it's the lack of regulation in the past and no middle ground in environmental policy in the present that caused the damage.

Lack of a middle ground is a major issue. ATM it's all basically 'pollute like there's no tomorrow, because that's the goal! Destroy the Earth. Kill if it you have to!' or 'If we don't start pocket-mulching and get rid of everything so we can revert back to a druidic lifestyle we'll all die tomorrow!' Not much in the way of a middle ground.

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<i>all you would be doing by reducing polluters is letting the foot off the gas a small amount, when the gas pedal has been floored for the past ~100 years. there's no going back...</i>

Well, first off, the world has been both hotter and colder than before. It's not likely that the man-made climate change is going to be the death-knell of all life like a lot of people like to claim. It certainly is a problem that needs dealing with and addressing but it's not going to be the end of the world either. Just a massive change.

More to the point, however, is that the question of 'what can be done now' is very difficult to answer. Even if every nation in the world decided to tackle the issue the simple fact is that there isn't much that CAN be done in the first place beyond trying to encourage greener technology and clean-up. It's not like we can just drop a giant chunk of comet ice in the water every year.

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Lobomoon posted...

Do you think there is a parallel Earth where people went with Socialism and the environment there is in the great shape?

No. ATM the worst polluter in the world is easily China and the damage that places like the U.S.S.R. did is simply staggering even if we didn't understand just what was going on at the time. Just look at what happened to the Aral sea! Obviously capitalism has it's problems, but when compared to the communism it's not a question.

The primary reason, IMO, is that most communist nations hold no reason to care about the environment unless it threatens the power of the government and it's extremely easy to censor the spread of information. If your nation is struggling economically and the only way to fix it is to dump a bunch of toxins into the water from a factory that gets its tech from the 1960's and probably work about 20 people to death doing so, it's very easy to censor that info. Not so in a capitalist nation especially with the free press, social media, and other such things around.

The thing is that a lot of nations have either small populations or are struggling technologically to the point where they can't be a major influence of global warming. Somewhere like, say, Macedonia or Sudan just isn't going to be able to compete with a nation that's both heavily populated and industrialized like America. That's before things like government corruption even appears as a factor.

The interesting thing about a capitalist society is that it does actually contain at least some counters. Namely that it allows for the development of things like electric cars, stores and goods that are eco-friendly, and other such things handled by the buyer. It's hardly perfect, but compared to a place where the government could simply just crack down on the population and censor stuff to protect it's own power it's a bloody godsend for the planet.

America will likely be #2-3 on the list of polluters for a looooong time simply because of its population and industralization, but it is improving at least somewhat. More could be done (such as a greater focus on cleaning up trash) but it's China and India that are currently the bigger environmental threats.

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captpackrat posted...

Get paid money to deliver cargo WITHOUT killing anyone.

Death Stranding? Euro Truck Simulator?

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WhiskeyDisk posted...

Nope, but oh God...hatoful boyfriend is so far from my game it's kind of hilarious...

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1121910/I_Love_You_Colonel_Sanders_A_Finger_Lickin_Good_Dating_Simulator/

What? I wasn't joking. I was one bad decision away from playing this instead of my most recent 'most recent played' game.

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WhiskeyDisk posted...

An oddly dressed Sanders supporter falls out of an airplane and kills everyone in her path for the glory of Colonel Sanders.

That KFC dating sim game.

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afrodude77 posted...

Human popsicle works for Rick Sanchez

The Outer Worlds

Catgirls save the universe!

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HellSpawn666 posted...

Some ginger girl fights robots with a stick.

Horizon zero dawn

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keyblader1985 posted...

I'm currently trying to perform a newly discovered glitch that's similar to the Broken Dagger glitch in DC1. It can only be done at a certain point in the game though.

Aside from the name-change glitch/easter egg I don't cheat when playing that game. Even the name-change is more of because how annoying it is to get some of the weapons than anything else; especially Monica's magic. Maybe it's just me but it always seems to lag behind massively compared to everything else.

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inloveanddeath0 posted...

Guns loot meat bicycles

Borderlands 2.

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Batman... WITH UNLIMITED PREP-TIME!

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FF VI is the best! III is the worst. Of the mainlines I mean. Not gonna touch upon the other stuff. No clue where the heck I'd put something like, say, Crystal Chronicles in the grand picture.

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keyblader1985 posted...

Save the world, but remember to take pictures of fucking everything

Dark Cloud 2

<3 that game. I missed so many pictures on my first playthrough.

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Colonialism as a force for good.

Civilization VI

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Blaqthourne posted...

"The top 1 percent paid a greater share of individual income taxes (37.3 percent) than the bottom 90 percent combined (30.5 percent)."
https://taxfoundation.org/summary-latest-federal-income-tax-data-2018-update/

If you're going to complain about the rich supposedly paying no taxes while pointing out that the poor hardly pay any, why would you want to switch to a system where the poor would pay several multiples of what they currently pay while the rich would only have a negligible increase?

IMO the mis-understanding comes from the fact that the money lost to taxes means a LOT less to the rich than the poor. As a result it seems like the rich pay less while the poor get heavily burdened even though that's not quite the case. After all, 1 dollar out of 100 is a bit more meaningful than 10 out of 1,000 despite both being 1%.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

So exactly where the U.S. is heading.

The U.S. has its problems especially with the overpowering political class, media, and tech oligarchy, but it's still nowhere near as bad as communism and is unlikely to get so bad so long as the various rights and protections granted in its constitution and bill of rights are, well, protected. So long as you have the freedom to say what you desire then people can speak out against the government and revolt for example. Be wary of ANYTHING that chips away at said rights even a little bit.

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i'm not going to write a detailed essay for people that would just get mad because they don't understand.

Clearly we wouldn't understand why the multitude of communist nations across history since it's conception have become tyrannical dictatorships with a massively powerful political class that actively oppresses its working class and results in economic problems, cultural collapse, and problems all-around for people who do not actively conform to party policy. Clearly you do understand how communism actually works and why nations like the U.S.S.R. and North Korea are not the 'end result' of communism.

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WhiskeyDisk posted...

Political Compass definitely does have a strong Left bias though. It shows when you pick the "more stances" option because it ends up reading something like this:

Q: Are babies edible?

1. Yes, babies can provide a source of nourishment in a well-balanced diet.
2. Yes, and we should eat all babies. Women should be forced to have babies so we can all eat more of them. An all-baby diet will make strong alpha males to protect our baby-eating way of life which is superior to all other systems.
3. No. They're poisonous.
4. No, children are our future but we shouldn't have any without weighing the possible environmental and social justice consequences of procreation.
5. No, and we shouldn't eat animals either. We should only begrudgingly eat plants, engineer plants to consent to being eaten, and you're literally Hitler if you live indoors and don't pocket mulch.

The aggregate of responses after 50 questions leads to about 1 of 3 outcomes. Anarchist, libertarian/left libertarian, or fascist/authoritarian and the questions seem to group strongly on just a few hot button issues at any given time instead of a spectrum of issues since you'll basically see similar questions 2 or 3 times, just phrased differently.

At work when we have a parent with a disobedient child I'll sometimes offer to 'buy' the child off the parent to turn them into hamburger and grind the bones into baby powder but make sure to say that I can only legally do it if the child is being disobedient. 9/10 times the kid usually shuts up and pleads with their parent that they're a good kid; especially when I start sizing them up and giving discount prices for them. The parent usually figures it out right from the get-go. Only one kid ever called me out on the bluff until the parent started asking if they could get more than $20 off at which point they quieted down.

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28%. Not surprised. So many people just call others fascist for the sake of doing so that it's lost a lot of impact.

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To clarify from last night...

It is, most certainly, a privilege since it's something not innate to your being. Going online means connecting to the web and, if people are determined enough, they can track you down no matter what you do on your end. You could be the most inoffensive person who just posts pictures of sunsets and, if the government wanted, they could crack down on you. It's not inherent to you and, thusly, is a privilege. However it should be a right; especially given how bad things are in those nations where it is not one which results in hyper-authoritarian governments cracking down on effectively everything.

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Priviledge that should be a right.

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I'm noticing a distinct trend here of places punishing employee's for getting sick because there is no one to cover their shift as a result of the sickness. Also of them only 'approving' when they get to make the call. I think that taps into the fact that they think employee's are liars and want to work them as hard and much as possible and only send them home when it's a serious concern.

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The paranoia exhibited by companies always astounds me. 'One guy might decide to do something stupid so now the other ninety nine people need to suffer!' or 'one customer complained so now we need to ruin the lives of our employees to satisfy that one customer!'

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LinkPizza posted...

We sort of have to. Some time ago, the rules were changed in sick leave. We have sick time, but unless certain conditions are made, we cant exactly always use it. Like we have to plan it early. And if we get sick during the week, the first day we use sick leave, we dont get paid for it. Its to encourage us not to be sick or use sick leave...

Freaking ouch. How on earth do you *plan* sick leave?

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Related: Would your BOSS expect you to keep working if sick or would you get guilted/forced to come in regardless of how ill you are? Even if they're willing to let you take the day off, could you afford to do so or would you come in simply because, if you don't, it's off to the poor house?

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Mead posted...

Im pro its nobodys business expect the woman with the crotch-fruit taking root in her butt, and her doctor

Is it though? I mean, what if the father doesn't want her to have the child because he knows/believes that the courts will force him to pay for it and he is incapable for various reasons of doing so? Is it fair to force him to have to support a child he doesn't desire and may have even taken every precaution against? What if he believes that it isn't his and that his wife is cheating on him with the pool guy? What if she actually is? Is he now going to have to support someone who isn't his kid because the mother decided she wanted to keep it? What if the doctor forces their political viewpoint on the mother and starts to bring up all the negatives of having the child and persuades the would-be mother to abort when she wouldn't have otherwise? Possibly recommending a clinic run by a friend in doing so as well? What if the father desires the child and offers to take full care and responsibility but the mother aborts simply to spite him? What if the mother's reasoning for aborting is race or gender based or because she believes that the child will be homosexual and doesn't want to have a homosexual in their family?

That's just a few of the situations I can think of where maybe it should be more than just the two of them making the decision. Even in those I'm sure that there are caveots and conditions that would change the situation. It's not a clear-cut problem, doesn't have a clear-cut solution, and there will be no 'perfect' answer of equality or whatever else.

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Judgmenl posted...

There isn't a reason. Some people are stubborn, and a lot of people are apathetic.
I am definitely apathetic on this issue. Both sides have valid arguments, however both sides have absurd arguments which prevent me from really caring about this issue.

TBH, I'm effectively a neutral on the whole issue with a favoring towards pro-life. I mean, so much of it comes down to technicalities and questions that can't be simply answered or even scientifically answered that even figuring out what is being talked about is difficult. I mean, let's go with the whole 'when is it actually alive' thing.

If you're pro-choice then it clearly seems like a bunch of religious whackos who hate women are trying to punish her and restrict her sexuality simply because she's a woman by forcing her to spend nine months taking a non-living clump of cells and raising it into a baby which will then likely hold her back for eighteen or more years all simply because she had the audacity to have sex one night and a condom broke. Likewise if you're pro-life then it clearly seems like a bunch of hedonistic whackos want to kill babies and dodge responsibility so they can proceed to engage in full-on orgies and just abort any 'accidents' that happen. Does life begin at conception? Hard to say at best. Even if it could be determined when there is no denying that the fetus WOULD have become a living, breathing, human being (assuming no issues arose, yea yea). And when does it get considered to be 'alive' anyways? Conception? When it can survive outside the mother? Birth? 93rd trimester? Likewise a lot of the people weighing in on the situation are men whom will never have to deal with the issue of the unwanted pregnancy. They can have as much sex as they desire and not have to worry about getting pregnant.

That's not to mention you most certainly have religious whackos who hate women and people who would utterly abuse the system to skirt responsibility. If you are pro-life you should agree that the people championing your cause shouldn't be the ones who see women as nothing more than talking oven/washing machine combinations. Likewise, if you are pro-life you shouldn't want the people championing your cause being people who would ignore all responsibility and reason so they can act like spoiled little ******; especially if you don't want it just legal but paid for by tax payers.

Heck, I'd say that it's even more complicated as I sort of see there being THREE sides at this point. The pro-life, pro-choice, and pro-abortion groups. The difference between the latter two being that the first merely wants it legal but basically used sparingly if not as a last resort while the other wants it as free and unrestricted as possible.

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EvilMegas posted...

Like I said: Max stealth, you can do damn near anything with it. Scuba gear to expensive? Fucking Jack it with stealth, no one is going to ever know.

Stop right there criminal scum!

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Fierce_Deity_08 posted...

wolfy42 posted...

Unbridled9 posted...

From racials? Underwater breathing. Invisibility would rock and I could do a lot with that, but you just can't beat having 2/3rds of the world suddenly becoming open to you. The sheer volume of stuff you could do underwater would be amazing.

At least anywhere you can go with a scuba suit that is.......deep pressure would possibly still kill you.

Not with my badass Dragonscale armor!

Dragonscale would just make it worse. Extra weight. But even if I can't explore the super-deep parts of the ocean I can still do a lot and not have to worry about scuba gear or anything.
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From racials? Underwater breathing. Invisibility would rock and I could do a lot with that, but you just can't beat having 2/3rds of the world suddenly becoming open to you. The sheer volume of stuff you could do underwater would be amazing.

In all of Skyrim? Slow time. I mean, imagine playing, say, Baseball and right as the pitcher throws you use that shout. You'd ALWAYS hit the ball perfectly! Nevermind any other sport. Or the sheer volume of things that you could do in other careers or life in general with the ability to slow down time. Catch every thief with ease as a cop? Steal effectively whatever you want (with a little bit of planning) because of how slow everyone else is? Whatever your career you could almost certainly do much better with the ability to bring the world to a crawl on a whim. Hell, imagine being a magician and being able to ACTUALLY grab bullets from the air because of this shout?
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If you ask me the role of the government is to serve and protect the people within its nation. That includes providing things such as roads which everyone needs, ensuring the borders are protected, and that criminals are dealt with properly. That does not include infringing upon rights or increasing its own power.
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Judgmenl posted...

Everyone's a hypocrite.

About something, sure; but what matters is what you do when the hypocracy is exposed. Thanks to this topic though I'm convinced that there's no point in trying to reason with or compromise with a pro-choicer. After all, if they can't understand how being pro-life but opposing government-run programs like those doesn't make one a hypocrite, what's the point of trying to reason with them?
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TheWitchMorgana posted...

Bugmeat posted...

I have. I'm open to dating someone from just about any race. The Aboriginal people of Australia are probably the only group I wouldn't be interested in.

thats weirdly specific what did they ever do to you

One of them broke their window but they can't actually prove it.
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Mead posted...

Please save these poor defenseless children so that they can experience a life of poverty and I can blame them for all societal ills

I don't recall saying life was fair.
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wolfy42 posted...

Unbridled9 posted...

No. I don't date at all. I wish I had the time to; but there's just so much work to be done, bills to be paid, and the like. Dating isn't an option.

If it were... I'd have no problems dating outside my race. Though I'd keep it to my species unless humanoid races like elves suddenly get discovered.

I mean...how do you expect those humanoid races to get started then!!! *hehe*

Copious amounts of genetic augmentation.

I know I can't **** a lion and get a Miqo'te from it after all.
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No. I don't date at all. I wish I had the time to; but there's just so much work to be done, bills to be paid, and the like. Dating isn't an option.

If it were... I'd have no problems dating outside my race. Though I'd keep it to my species unless humanoid races like elves suddenly get discovered.
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Oh wow. Seriously? You seriously think this? That people who disagree with you are effectively hypocrites because issues that likely have completely different and unrelated reasons behind them can be phrased in such a way as to make them seem hypocritical? Did it ever occur to you that, ya know, there are different motives behind the claims, different ideals, and that pro-life people are *not* all right-wingers falling into party line?

Let's use a non-political example here. Alex loves seafood. Fish, shellfish, everything. Alex also loves spicy food. Especially tabasco sauce. However Alex hates having tabasco sauce on their fish and considers spicy seafood to be a culinary travesty. Is Alex a hypocrite?

I don't think anyone would claim for a second that such a viewpoint would be hypocritical. After all, Alex's love of two things does not mean that they desire to see them overlap and the reasoning and motives for liking seafood and spicy food may be entirely different.

Pro-life people see a fetus as being an unborn child typically. As such they tend to see terminating said child as being akin to murder. Even if one could argue that it isn't alive they would claim that it likely would be had it not been aborted. Their view of murder, be it religiously founded or otherwise, is the dominating factor here.

This does not mean that they will *like* the resulting child. They may see it as an annoying, entitled, brat that they'd gladly send off to an orphanage or something; but they view that childs life is an inherent right to it and it would be wrong to take it away; especially if the motivation isn't something medical but, rather, some woman using it as contraception to dodge responsibility.

As for things like food stamps and whatnot, their views on them are often not motivated by the child or a right to life or anything of the sort. They see it as an excuse for the poor to leech off of society or whatever reason for whatever program they dislike. The child is effectively a non-factor here. If they saw a child starving in the street or were given the option to donate or something similar to help there is a chance they would do so; but there is a massive difference between donating of your own free will and having the government force such things along regardless of your stance on the situation.

A person who ONLY cared about the well-being of the child turning around and effectively cutting all support once they were born with no other motivation, logic, or anything else could be argued to be hypocritical. A person who has other motives, reasons, logic, and other such things is probably not being a hypocrite. Just because you want to help starving kids in undeveloped nations doesn't mean you're about to sell everything you own to help them or that you can't weigh the value between two different actions, one which helps and one which hurts, and pick the latter as you see other, more valuable, benefits to it.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

I recall hearing somewhere that Johnson considers movies good when they're controversial. If that's true than he certainly succeeded with TLJ but I think he forgot to factor in something very important; why the movie is controversial in the first place. Let's look at Fire Emblem: Three Houses for an example here.

Edlegard is a very controversial character. Starting off as the lord of the house most people will pick on their first playthrough and as the closest thing to a 'poster child' a lot of people played her route first where she makes some choices which are, doubtless, extremely tough and difficult to achieve her ideal world. She does things like ally with those who caused her much pain and blames Rhea and the crest system for much of the ills in the world and is willing to do terrible things to try and improve the world by getting rid of the crest system, nobility, and other such things. This results in a situation in which the question of 'does the ends justify the means' becomes center-stage to the question of if you like or despise her. On the one hand she is responsible for things like TWSITD still being around and killing the characters father; but if she succeeds she gets rid of the crest system which is shown to be highly problematic, the church which is highly flawed due to Rhea, and other reforms effectively improving the world. Is she right or wrong? Good or evil?

The problem is that, in TLJ, the controversy stems not from good writing, moral ambiguity, or anything else; but from its exact opposite. Terrible writing and plot, idiotic morality, and a complete lack of anything else. Non-answers abound, stupid decisions are constantly made, and terrible ideals are constantly forced and pushed about. The result is that a lot of people consider it a terrible movie while others consider it to not be a terrible movie effectively because 'it subverts' which is a TERRIBLE metric to use.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage