Nah, I’m sorry, I think that’s a lot of semantics to get to a place to emotionally avoid Tuvix’s anguish, which is understandable. The emotional appeal isn’t nothing. I haven’t actually discussed this episode in years because I generally think it’s bottom 5 across all series, but as a healthcare attorney and bodily…

Tuvix is basically the trolley problem, in that you can actively kill this one guy to restore your two friends, or passively just let them keep being “dead” so he can live.  How obvious the solution is seems to vary widely with different people, as in the original thought experiment.

No, you are incorrect and philosophically sloppy.

I think they’ve avoided making Mariner a Poochie. She seemed like that’s what she was going to be early on, but the show has done enough exploration of her flaws (that she’s been stuck as an ensign for far longer than the average Starfleet officer, she’s very competent but constitutionally allergic to responsibility,…

I like Mariner, because she’s the Young Brat version of most TREK heroes. Something will settle her down and she’ll grow into her natural ability to lead — I think she’s starting to, even with all the “Mariner’s being a troublemaker again!”

Or that Archer and Phlox let an entire planet succumb to an easily curable disease because “evolution”.

Or that Archer spent an entire season Operation Enduring Freedom-ing his way across the galaxy.

It baffles me that people fixate on Tuvix when Janeway is literally responsible for the deaths of hundreds, if not thousands.

I’m sure that Janeway will teach them important lessons about Starfleet. Such as if two of your officers merge into a single, independent, gestalt being; said being has absolutely no rights and can be murdered for literally any reason.

How is that “the same thing?” The only way those two things are equivalent is if you’re such a massive coward that the very idea of any consequences at all stops you from speaking.

It’s an interesting question! The discussion starts out pretty simply most of the time. If you want to tread into potentially offensive territory, look for who has the power in a situation and target them. Comedy is strongest when de-fanging a villain, not joining the other bullies, so avoid targeting marginalized…

>Chapelle gets paid millions for multiple Netflix specials

As an actual comedian, we talk about punching up vs down *all the time.* The only comedians who DON’T care about that discussion are unrepetant assholes.

Yes - I’ve also developed the habit to click Start Slideshow>List Slides. If there are any on the list that I’d like to read more about, I’ll just open those slides separately. 

In case you haven’t seen the cancel culture comments from Bobcat Goldthwait

It may be time to realize that Dave is just fucking with everyone re this controversy, and not take all these comments seriously.

What you have to understand about Conservatism is at its core, it is about preserving an in-group protected by the law but not bound by it, and an out-group bound by the law but not protected by it.

He's identifying the client's class in the hierarchy.

My client is a young man in high school with college aspirations.