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[Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake]

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[Blood of Youth]

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[Arknights]

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I started shipping them when I saw a billboard for some Halloween event in Disneyland and they had a picture of several baddies from different movies. Whether you're a fan of Disney or not you have to admit their characters are very expressive and Jaffar was eyeing Maleficent in a way that clearly said "check out the hot chick!"

I shipped them in the OG KH game

Uhh, when is rape or genocide ever justified?

how do we guarantee that we know which is which? And how do we guarantee that the roles won't reverse?

You can't. That's the human condition, there are no guarantees. The best marker I've found is harm reduction. Unfortunately, a lot of societies refuse to see harm being done, e.g. putting medical care behind a paywall, forcing people to work in harmful industries so they don't starve, perpetuating the idea that someone can incite and be 100% responsible for violence perpetrated on them (rape victims, etc etc) etc etc.

How can oppression end, if we don't condemn the hallmarks of oppression themselves; if we merely swap positions in the hierarchy? How can we dismantle a system if we continue to use the tools of the system?

This is nominally where laws are supposed to correct things. For instance, victims of crimes are not allowed to be the police officer going after the suspect, they're not allowed to be the prosecutor, the defense, the judge, or in the jury. When we don't exclude them, we get things like the Hatfield and the McCoy feud, where it's just death after death after death. The idea is that the victim is too emotionally compromised to make the correct decision for the community. Naturally, it falls to fallible humans to enact this, and we fail at it. A lot. We also have very little experience with dealing with this on a global scale, when the victims and perpetrators are the governments of countries.

Also, a lot of people don't want to condemn the hallmarks of oppression because that oppression benefits them in some way (mens rights activists, racists, etc etc). They fear that if the oppression goes away, the victims of it WILL turn the tables, so they justify the oppression as "defense".

The answer, unfortunately, is to listen to science when it tells us the best way to go about reaching our goals, and the things we must absolutely avoid. You can see how much people want to listen to science when their emotions tell them they're completely justified. *gestures at everything*

Hoping to see Five Nights at Freddy's either this weekend or on Monday. Also hoping for Iron Lung to get an international release.

I will admit it, I much preferred the ending in the book. And I don't care if Adams felt like he caved to sentiment... Mind you I first read the book when I was twelve. In retrospect I appreciate not being any more traumatized by the story than I was.

(Also to this day when anything is going really wrong I find myself singing "we're all up for the chimney." Kiff's song was surprisingly catchy!)

Yeah, sometimes, but I don't think this is one of those cases.

I have long thought this - not that he was undercover in their marriage but that he had to get a new identity afterwards and joined the FBI. They have the same law background!

I explained it to myself as Louis narrating the story from this century and changing it to suit, which helped.

No, I think I can say murder, torture, rape and genocide are wrong as a matter of course. Sometimes murder might be understandable, but it's still wrong and that's why we have a legal system, even though it's very, very flawed.

AYRT

I'm personally not sure, but I've had people in the past few weeks tell me that it's possible to find cases where they are.

If you don't mind anime that's kind of made for kids...

There's the Professor Layton movie (Eternal Diva), though kids may get the focus from time to time.

You could also check out the Layton Mystery Journey anime, which focuses on Layton's kid years later. If you don't mind that she's not much older than a teen.

DA

There was a news story about a decade ago about a mexican cartel forcing (attempting to force?) kidnapping victims who were siblings to have sex with each other. It would not be a stretch for one sibling to categorically refuse, and the other to do it to save both of their lives. I would be hard pressed to say the sibling complying was morally wrong in that case.

Antique Bakery
Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan
Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san
Ergo Proxy
The Way of the Househusband
Mushishi
Death Parade
Baccano
Polar Bear Cafe
The Tatami Galaxy

But the one who goes along with it in that case is doing so under duress. They are, in a sense, themselves being raped, and the moral culpability lies with the individual(s) forcing them to do it.

Hmm, yeah I'll give it that.

But how would justified genocide even work?

I literally can't think of an example where it would be justified to kill a group of people, young and old. I don't quite want to either.

This is long and rambly. Read it or ignore it. Either way is fine.

I think there's a thing called self-defense, which is justified when someone is actively threatening your life.

But in defending yourself, is it necessary to brutalize? Can you stop your oppressor without beating the shit out of them? Can you make them stop hurting others without resorting to killing them? Do you want to? Do you feel like you have a choice? I admit there are times it may not be possible, but if you can avoid bloodshed, would you choose that?

Why do you think the roles will be reversed? Are you scared of something?

If you think of the oppressed as people who are abused, think about the numbers there. How many people get abused. How many gain the upper hand and fight off their abusers. How many take the opportunity to get revenge on their abusers. How many go on to abuse others. How many turn inward and abuse themselves instead. How many don't do any of that, and simply want to be treated as equals in a society and live peacefully.

I think a lot of people in the world are good (or at least decent). Yes, we all have the ability to be absolute shitbags (myself included) to one another, especially if we get carried away in groups without stopping to think (group mentality, mob mentality). But is it likely? I think most people just want to live their lives and not hurt others, or be hurt themselves.

I think oppression comes from fear, the fear of being subjugated themselves, because there are those in the world who believe life is a zero sum game, and to be happy, they must fuck others over. Of course, some of them can't accomplish that by themselves, so they must recruit others. Usually manipulating them into dehumanizing other people not a threat to them. That's a pretty awful thing, I think. I don't think anyone has the right to oppress anyone else. I like the idea that society is a contract, and to be a part of it, you must abide by the rules of decency, like not being a fascist fuck (for example). Break enough of the rules, or at least the worst ones, and you aren't covered by the contract. Does this mean you deserve to be oppressed? No, but if you act out in a way that is harmful to others, you should be punished/cast out. And I also think that if you escalated to violence (while harming others), that the others have a right to defend themselves against you.

You asked if anything is beyond the pale? I think several things, but one of the worst is to not see another person as human. Yes, even if that person is the worst piece of shit on the planet. To consider another person as not being worthy of basic rights, of not having the right to food, water, and shelter, of not having the right to bodily autonomy, to be subjected to cruel or torturous treatment against their will, to be killed over unfounded fears. I know some folks joke or vent about how some horrible person deserves (sharp object, possibly rusted) shoved up (random orifice) and I don't judge for that, it's just blowing off steam. But I honestly think most folks couldn't bring themselves to do that to another human, not unless they were coerced or pressured in some terrible way.

Anytime you're oppressing someone, you're oppressing someone. Two wrongs don't make a right.

How can oppression end? That's a good goddamn question, and I don't know if there's a good answer. Move toward ending it, I guess. Start with yourself. Check yourself. If you find yourself in a group that's getting into that mentality, speak up, even though it's hard and you may find yourself cast out. Find folks who don't agree with oppression of any kind and are dedicated to better solutions to a terrible issue. I don't think there's a perfect way.

AYRT

The issue there is what's meant by science. Plenty of things that have in the moment seemed scientific have been used to justify some fairly terrible actions.

What if science winds up telling us that some people really are "inferior," in the sense that they have lower intelligence, or a greater propensity for aggression, or a tendency to be irrational? Shall we listen to it?

AYRT

That's where the justification lies. Even though the one person is physically doing the act, we recognize that it is not something they would have done of their own volition. This is why being forced at gunpoint is exculpatory for several types of crimes.

AYRT

Science doesn't tell us what our goals are. If your goal is to eliminate red hair from the population, science can tell us how to do that. If your goal is to create a more peaceful society, science can tell us how to do that, too. Science has already shown that there aren't "inferior" people, but even if something like that could be scientifically proven, science doesn't tell us what to do with those "inferior" people.

AYRT

I can't either, not against people. I won't say that it's always and forever wrong and it can never be the answer to anything, because that's the same thing as trying to prove that black swans don't exist, but if there is any kind of justification for that it must be a very, very particular set of circumstances that have yet to be met and probably won't ever be met.

Some that I've enjoyed:

Planetes
FLAG
Master Keaton

For some characters, changing their race wouldn't change anything else about them.

For some characters, it can be more interesting and have additional layers added to them if their race is changed in a way that fits something that was already part of them in with how they would navigate it along with their race in accordance with attitudes and relations of the setting.

Both of these are true, and saying both at different times is not hypocrisy. Not all characters are the same. It depends on the character and how much race is relevant to them initially and in the setting they live in.

"Modern politics in cosplay" is a lot of historical fiction, on purpose or accidentally, but you probably only notice or care when it's about race, gender, or sexuality and not like, war or some shit.

The Marvels.

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