Well, you take any group of people anywhere relating to anything and some portion is gonna hate on another portion. I am sure there are little old lady knitting clubs that hate the fuck out of people who crochet.

I think we have a new one-off Fantastic Four Halloween special issue!

Just to be very clear I am not saying that there IS a mental issue here. I'm saying I've struggled with the indecision over whether it should be considered so or not.

I love this more than I think I should.

Well, I sort of alluded to the idea of what constitutes a disorder. Some people get plastic surgery and it may be perfectly justified; they have some feature way outside the norm and they would feel more comfortable if it were. I don't think that this is a real problem. But when someone gets surgery after surgery…

I have to admit that I struggle with the idea here of whether or not this is mental illness.

Still, even if you don't read every line (and I don't) some common sense applies. I've bought digital books and understood at the time of purchase that there was never any guarantee that I'd be able to read it, say, 25 years from now.

Don't ruin our fun with facts!

"They set a slamhound on Turner's trail in New Delhi, slotted it to his pheromones and the color of his hair." — William Gibson in Count Zero

Animal rights activists will be up in arms. But I'd rather 100,000 mice get blown up than one human being.

And my guess is you probably were banned for a very good reason. Forums are FULL of stories of people who do things against the rules they agreed to and then cry and cry when they get caught. You might be perfectly innocent. But, not knowing you one way or another, I'd place a bet you are not merely because someone…

Well, that's the rub. It DOES give them the right because that is part of the agreement she had when she purchased. That is one risk of digital content that people overlook.

I dunno, I think that is sort of reading things into it. I do know that there will never be a cure and there will never be a total explanation (the creators said as much). But I think you are over-thinking this. The disease is not an analogy intended to express some higher meaning; it's a McGuffin intended to…

That disambiguated but I saw a few shows in there (including Highlander: "There can be only Type-A!!!")

I'd hate to think that someone's disposition had anything to do with the infection rate; that doesn't really pass the sniff test. I could see someone's emotional state (reflected in biochemistry) having something to do with it though.

In the video game world there are people who are banned from games all of the time.

I would argue that if your car seat felt like human skin than it would feel the most natural to you and, hence, easier for you to ignore. That would help with the feeling of immersion when driving and would lead to slight increases in safety as well as just overall comfort.

This is going to spawn so much McGuyveresque bad sci-fi movie plots.

I would love, love, love, love, LOVE to see a sequel called "Bigger Trouble In Little China".

Actually, it's an interesting idea. Basically you just started off a dozen related discussion threads and primed the whole meta-discussion nicely. Good idea and probably applicable to a lot of other topics.