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  • It’s the first question in a battery of questions designed to force you to be aware of inconsistencies in your ethical framework. The first answer is supposed to be obvious: Yes, you throw the switch, but most people’s reason for that creates a very messy precedent that the distinction between action and inaction doesn’t matter, only the outcome, which later questions can exploit.







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    8 months ago

    Also, for those wondering about the inevitable followup question, a stop sign has to be placed by a local or state government to be enforceable, and is required to follow the exact standard specifications. Tickets have been thrown out due to stop signs being a slightly wrong shade of red, so blue or green are definitely out.


  • I think the difference is those are portrayed in a way where you’re still supposed to be rooting for her. Every one of those people, as brutally as they were killed, were monumental assholes. And instead of letting the viewer grapple with the fact that they’re on the side of a sadistic monster torturing someone to death, to explore the dangers of prioritizing vengeance over justice, the story just moves on. There’s a lot they could have done to bring the consequences of Dany’s shortsighted rage into perspective, really give the viewer several moments of “yeah, I see why she did it in the heat of the moment, but damn, that’s fucked up”. Then, her subsequent heel turn would feel like the logical conclusion of her arc.

    Then just give her time to be the main antagonist for a bit. What’s the point of spending a series long arc setting up a powerful villain if she’s not actually given any screentime as the villain?



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    10 months ago

    Those licenses are standard for any website where you can upload content and are just the basic functionality of a website written in legalese. Without it, everyone’s feed would be blank because they’re not allowed to copy what you uploaded, they wouldn’t even have a copy themselves because you didn’t give them permission to store it. If someone’s screen resolution is different, they technically need separate permission to “adapt” the content by delivering it in an appropriate resolution. Arranging several posts into a feed or timeline is including your post in a derivative work, which also is a separate legal permission they need to request from you. They can sneak extra things in there, but the agreement itself is a legal formality for making a website that stores and displays things the users enter. If they don’t have it, you can post something, then sue them for distributing your post to others.