Replies to pony, page 36
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@pony Re: University Days. That will actually be referenced in my work because I love DawnFade. He even follows me on DA, which kinda makes me fangasm.
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@pony This guy's taken into account everything. It's about the multiverse, the protagonist being from another universe, and he's taken the time to craft this other universe (which is some sci-fi universe with kickass weapons and FTL travel and THE GENOCIDE OF 4.2 BILLION ALIENS LIKE IS THAT COOL OR WHAT) and he clearly did his homework. Plus he even creates a world within Equestria, stating ages, marriage laws, Equestrian relations with neighboring nations, several historical events, etc.
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@pony There was a chapter here where he was attacked by somebody who thought he was a dangerous alien (which he is) and when he got them pinned he got kinda rape-y and almost made her do things. Then his moral sense kicked in and he felt incredibly guilty about it (for about five minutes) but they haven't mentioned it since. Or, rather, his would-be victim did mention it, but that was an offhand comment and i don't think anyone took it seriously.
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@pony Dude I miss that show SO HARD. I need to rewatch every episode.
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@pony I know right
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@pony Hopefully the discussion has some merit beyond not being literally illegal to have though.
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@pony With the caveat that they do their best to get along with your own, of course.
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@pony do you have any idea how skeevy it is when you refer to real children by pony terms
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@pony The thing is, you like children far too much to accurately judge their flaws, in the same way I'd overlook the flaws of say, a cat.
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@pony I meant ever BTW, not even
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@pony Man, you really need to be more careful when choosing which cons to attend to.
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@pony I've seen children that haven't ever been taught or witnessed anything that's bad that are rotten little heathens though.
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@pony Man, don't even raise a kid.
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@pony @dashalicious Over here cons smell mostly of ramen, sweat is only noticeable the last two hours of the con.
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@pony He's kind of a pervert
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@pony Children, by definition, are inexperienced, roguish, rash, cruel and untempered. You can't really get farther from "perfect" than that.
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@pony The children I have to be around aren't perfect by a long shot.
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@pony Perfect individuals don't /need/ guiding.
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@pony I like water and ball pools better than car pools, personally.
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@pony I don't think you understand what perfect means. In any case, in the rare situation where hypotetical perfect people needed authority, they'd just pick the individual with the most experience in the field at hand and unofficially follow that person for the duration of the activity, much like it happens among any group of agreeable, true equals working on something.
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@pony If people were perfect we wouldn't need governments.
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@pony Whilst I am all for order, the issue remains that law is supposed to be a tool to make justice easier, but the modern world seems bent on subjugating justice to law. A phrase I think explains it pretty well is "Law is to justice what a gun is to a cop. A gun doesn't make a cop, in the same way law doesn't make justice". And regardless of what consequences there might be, justice must be upheld. If "order" requires justice to be ignored to sustain itself, then that order doesn't deserve to be, and must be erased and remade. And the problem with letting people change the law is that inevitably it will only make things worse, since most of the time people aren't smart enough to see schemes and are easily herded to support a change that isn't in the best interest of justice.
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@pony The thing is, you live in the land of unbridled capitalism, so laws focused on making money are often unjust towards the consumer. Over here laws on that stuff are far more lax, in part because people tend to be more combative about their rights and in part because software companies want to charge too much so it's either allowing some degree of piracy or letting the computer and gaming industry just sink. Then there's places like Russia that have cool things like anti-DRM laws. I'm against piracy when the developers don't rid legal software with bloatware and crap to keep users in check, like when buying from gog, but I support it for DRM-intensive software and "we can revoke your license at any time" software, since those are not muh different from outright scams. Justice over law, basically.
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@pony Pants aren't real; they're just an illusion.
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@pony I tend to support wits over law when people start charging for things without giving ownership in exchange for money. When you try to outwit people for profit, it's only just that someone outwits you and takes your stuff, and you can't complain about it.
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@pony Piracy on the other hand
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@pony then I own a lot of illusion-made stuff
