Grams was a bit wrong this time, Sokka. The sentiment of caring for her future is good, but the reality is much different. The sentiment of wanting her to be warm and to wear a sweater is good, but it is currently 90F degrees outside.

Just gonna point out that the theory of evolution is more well understood and verified than the theory of gravity.

Gravity is a fact. It is a fact that things with mass are attracted to one another. The theory of gravity is describing how it happens.

Evolution is a fact. The fact is that evolution happens. The theory is describing how it happens.

The big bang model is similar in how well established it is. The debate has been over for many years. The Big Bang happened. The arguments are over how it happened.

A theory makes predictions. I can predict the speed of an object falling with the theory of gravity. If that prediction holds up, then that is evidence for the theory. Evolution makes similar predictions about what variation should be found, where it should be, and how long ago it should be. This happens to uncanny precision. I'm not as familiar with the BBT, but it predicted that we would be receiving microwave light from all directions everywhere. We found that too.

Nearly nobody goes into politics to help their country. Their primary objective is to help themselves by pushing their agenda.

Communism is a perfectly valid government if you're planning to destroy your economy and nation from the ground up. Nuking your garden is a very effective way to stop the weeds from growing.

I think it's mostly a critique that you'll very easily find female streamers who are blatantly pushing their figures to substitute for gaming content. Nothing inherently wrong with that as I see no issue with using your own body for money, but the issue is mostly them trying to cash out on phrases that don't include them. Like a high school dropout telling me he has a doctorate to boost his chances of landing a job.

As for fake rape reports, I am of the belief that we should always assume that the report is faulty until proven otherwise. It could be a misidentification, misunderstanding of language, actually a legitimately and intention fake, or worst of all an actual rape. Rape a very serious thing. I'm not qualified to make judgements on the guilty or not guilty status of a person. I just know that it is necessary to assume innocence or at least "not guilty".

Further, if we did away with the presumption of innocence, then the entire legal system would collapse and far more innocents will be punished unjustly. Your father goes on a fishing trip for a few hours. He is accused of raping a woman during those hours instead. He has no way to prove that he was indeed fishing even though he was. Your father would be sentenced to possible decades in prison. This system unfortunately means that some guilty people will slip through, but that is better than tens of thousands of innocents being shoved in.

I agree with you @guest_, but the simple act of feeling wronged does not necessarily mean an unlawful act was made. I would agree that it is immoral to do so as it decreases the well-being of the person, but there in some cases there is no precedent for such feelings of being wrong and many instances where the opposite was met. Imagine a husband giving his wife a quick kiss before going to work. He does it everyday, and she enjoys it everyday. And then without warning, she suddenly feels wronged by it.

There is a lot of nuance to any discussion about physical gestures and unspoken consent given how little humans communicate with words. The exact percentages are impossible to nail down, but a significant part of our communication is done without a single word being spoken from our posture, our expression, and even the amount that our eyelids are closed. I don't know what you guys are talking about, but I just wanted to point this out.

His wand looks like a fancy buttplug. Go check.

You heard it from @famousone everybody. Pick up your guns, go to the nearest school, and open fire. Maybe one of those kids are a lizard person sent by the Illuminati. It's worth killing all those innocents according to @famousone.

I have to wonder what he would think if his own children would have been on that bus. I'll show him some respect by believing that he doesn't really think this bullshit he's spouting is true.

I actually had a similar discussion about this on different forms of magic. If I sell you a car, there is an actual use for this car. You can drive it to work, take your kids to school, or go buy food.

If I sell you a missle, then I know exactly what you plan to do with that missle. There is only one thing a missle is made to do. The intention of the creator, seller, and the buyer is to murder people. There is no ambiguity here.

Hey, do you mind if I killed you? Well, I won't be killing you. I'll just give someone the gun to kill you. That way I'm totally innocent.

Famousone, you seem to be a parody of a patriotic person. I have difficulty telling if you are serious with your claims or not. It's not even important if you are the most moral child rapist to ever exist. You can be the most moral rapist anyone has ever imagined. That doesn't make you moral. It makes you not as horrible.

As for agreeing to give away your rights, that's impossible. Rights can never be given away. If your rights are ever made unavailable to you evem by your own will, then your rights are being violated. You can choose not to eat if you want. But it is immoral and a violation of your rights for someone else to decide you don't get to eat even if you agree.

I am fully aware of what happens to countries without a military. There are indeed some necessary evils that must be made. That doesn't mean I can't be critical of those evils though. The better option here is to convince the citizens as to why they should allow their rights to be stripped in order to defend their country. It's not exactly realistic, but that's the moral approach.

And if we narrow down to convincing trans people to die for their country, we could better narrow it down to trans people being forced to die for the citizens of said country. Now remember that trans people are one of the most disliked minorities in the U.S....

I think it's good too. The less people being forced into sacrificing their lives the better. The only real loss here is for the weirdos who wanted to join anyways.

I have a very strict view of canon. If it's not mentioned in the original books, then it isn't canon. Sadly, I don't consider it to be canon. It definitely has a "you can consider it side canon" thing to it though. Death of the Author and all. Her own ideas about what is and what isn't canon has no more weight than the opinions of any random person.

(I'm aware of the irony of using Death of the Author here. Death of the author is supposed to stop the limitations of the text's meaning while my usage is to directly limit what is and what is not canon.)