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    I would read the shit out of this but 5 people I have never and will never meet who nobody knows will die painlessly and I’m just not sure of the moral implications.

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    The best part is that, by refusing to be killed themselves, they are making a choice to let the other people die, rendering their hypocrisy evident and their worry fully rendered moot

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      Isn’t Homelander a villain though? I thought he was supposed to be a villain.

      Edit: NM I didn’t realize Homelander was from The Boys. I honestly thought he was the guy in Guardians of The Galaxy 3

      Edit 2: Apparently that character’s name is Adam Warlock.

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        I remember reading The Infinity gauntlet comics and in it Adam warlock was supposed to be the greatest human being ever created.

        And then they picked the actor that they chose for him and I’m just not seeing it.

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            Let’s see, Milk is a symbol of innocence and purity in movies, and is often used to make the audience feel uncomfortable when a villain or anti-hero drinks it.

            This is because milk is typically associated with childhood, which is considered the most innocent and pure time of life.

            When a villain drinks milk, it can represent the consumption or destruction of innocence, and can be used to indicate the villain’s loss of innocence

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              Yeah but blue milk tho. Might as well be cheese at that point

              Myself? I’d prefer bacta. You NEVER say no to bacta

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              At that point isn’t he? He created Kylo and then left everyone else to figure it out.

              Not really a hero’s move

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    It’s close to the second ghost rider (and maybe the first, been awhile since I dug up my old comics) who didn’t have powers until innocent blood was spilled (though typically it was the villain who spilled it).

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    I want more of this. Reminds me on the anime Darker than Black, where those with power always had to fulfill some contract to use their power, else they’d die.

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      Man, this anime is so underrated. I like it a lot. I question the artistic direction on the second season, but at least the ending wrapped up the whole show nicely.

      A little correction, nobody really know what happens when a contractor doesn’t do that side-effect thingy. It is never mentioned if they would die, nor that it’s even implied. The way I see it, they’d simply develop strong impulse to do so.

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      And here was I thinking that this character was so terrible that it caused Stan Lee to spontaneously spring back into existence in order to make that opinion known.

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      that’s rich.

      the only idiots who willingly misattribute this thought experiment are conservative trolls and Leftists, in my experience.

      honestly I think Democrats are the only ones who can fully grasp the concept of the trolley problem since both conservatives and leftists are much too extreme to make a non-biased choice. That can only be true because Democrats ride the fence between the two so well(according to both conservatives anf leftists).

      but hey, I’m just some retard on the internet according to them as well. 🤷

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        Extreme leftism is when you have a bedrock principle or two that you refuse to compromise on. Centrism is when everything, even genocide, is negotiable.

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          really great how you made a net negative sound like a positive, when in reality Leftists are just hyper focused on a facet of a larger problem and completely ignore the bigger picture because it doesn’t make them feel warm and fuzzy.

          that’s fine. Genocide is acceptable by Leftists too if it’s Muslims.

          btw, where was the leftist outrage for the millions of Wygers in China? not brown enough? not convenient enough during an election?

          so what makes lefties IGNORE Wyger persecution in china?

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            Leave aside for a moment the argument we might have about what is happening in China… What the fuck would I be able to do about that? Do I vote in China? Do my tax dollars fund their military?

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              Leave aside for a moment the argument we might have about what is happening in China… What the fuck would I be able to do about that? Do I vote in China? Do my tax dollars fund their military?

              so it’s based entirely on convenience. that’s even worse than being a racist.

              your economic dollars do. the entire American economy is dependent on cheap Wyger labor.

              how about pushing political leadership to apply pressure on China to stop enslaving Wygers? How about stop buying anything from China?

              Your money, not tax money, but YOUR money enables China to continue to enslave Wygers.

              when you go to the store, how about you look at where all your shit is made. I bet the technology you’re using to spray your liquid shititlement everywhere online is even made by Wygers in China.

              Can’t lefties get their messaging straight? You guys are the “anti-establishment” crowd. the most organized anarchists! The best corpopinkos in the world!

              I’ll just keep calling them hypocrites though.

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        Libs on this platform are obsessed with the trolley problem. They referred to it a lot to prove that genocide is ok and it being a deal breaker is stupid.

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          USA voters in the recent election never had a choice between genocide and not genocide, though, so your rambling seems pretty delusional.

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            Democrats : we have a complicated diplomatic relationship with this foreign state that is exacerbated by our domestic politics. We want this war to end, way more aid to flow into gaza, and a real, two state solution with a change of leadership in both nations so Palestine can co-exist with Israel.

            MAGA : PALESTINE DOES NOT EXIST AND NEVER WILL, WE WILL SEND A FLOOD OF UNLIMITED WEAPONS ON DAY 1, THE WEST BANK DOES NOT HAVE ILLEGAL SETTLEMENTS, JUST NORMAL COMMUNITIES. OUR AMBASSADOR TO ISRAEL IS A FUNDAMENTALIST CRISTIAN WHO WANTS ARMAGEDDON AND OUR SECRETARY OF STATE HAS CALLED FOR TOTAL WAR.

            You:

            These are the same people.

            Yall are absolute clown cars, and have sentenced the palestinian people to even more mass death with your empty, vacant posturing. Its fully possible there will be no west bank or gaza after these 4 years end, partly due to your actions. Great job.

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              You must have misclicked, I am saying Democrats were a clear choice, that the concept that a voter could morally abstain from voting for them because of Gaza is pure fallacy.

              There is no trolley problem normalizing Genocide relating to Democrats in the USA election, because genocide was always normalized and never on the ballot.

              In fact, the trolley problems that user is referring to likely pointed exactly that out and they still don’t understand it, an absolute concavebrain whoosh scenario.

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              This guy pulled the lever and is mad that it was rusted in place.

              I mean, I did too. But I knew it was rusted first. Had to try anyways.

              I just know that the people at fault are both the assholes who cut the repair and replacement budget and the guys who tied the people to the tracks, and not some randoms who aren’t even in the same country.