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"One of the world's most celebrated and influential electronic fartist".

I didn't even think of him as having a wife and kids and stuff. I sort of pictured him as a homeless entity who sleeps in a different club or stranger's bungalow every night. It's awesome someone who makes music that sounds so out of this fucking world is a regular guy. Can't wait for the album!

I didn't see his initial tweet at first, only the subsequent backlash and his follow-up explanation, but it seems irrelevant now that he's expanded and explained himself. I feel like with such delicate issues as these, people make mistakes and oversimplify things without being as clear as they need to be, which a

It's okay, this is probably the wrong place for me to attempt to have this discussion anyway. Should have realised that when the argument became whether or not my little brother exists, heh…

I am not a fanboy. I'm also not an atheist, and think Dawkins can be a real c**t sometimes about plenty of things. What I am is someone who's had to deal my whole life with people suggesting that to abort a foetus with Down Syndrome is totally evil, which I think is oversimplified and ill-informed. You think I'm a guy

That's why I said that he shouldn't have bothered. It was stupid.

Doesn't really read like backtracking to me so much as elaboration and justification. It's impossible to express anything so complicated through 140 characters. His only real mistake was bothering in the first place.

Yeah, this is why I hate Twitter. That's a grossly oversimplified expression of his argument which yielded predictably oversimplified and angry responses. Read his full opinion on his website and you'll understand it miles better.

I read what he wrote on his site and this is the closest I could find to what you seem to be thinking of: "I personally would go further and say that, if your morality is based, as mine is, on a desire to increase the sum of happiness and reduce suffering, the decision to deliberately give birth to a Down baby, when

He did not do that. You are oversimplifying this. Saying that it is perfectly moral for a woman to choose an abortion of a DS foetus is fine and true. It is not a comment on people who currently live with DS, or on their parents or loved ones.

He didn't say that, he said it is one of the most moral reasons to abort a foetus at all, and that it certainly COULD be called immoral, but went on to explain that the matter needs more discussion, and he would never tell anyone what to do or that they're bad or good people.

Probably fictional? Fucking hell. For what it's worth, you have my word? Although I feel odd trying to reassure a stranger that my younger brother exists. I wasn't trying to exempt myself from criticism, I was explaining that I do have reasons for what I'm saying.

When did anyone say you're a bad person if you don't abort??? The point is that you can totally justify the abortion of a baby with Down Syndrome as a moral act. I never said it was the only moral choice or the most moral in such a situation.

What's your argument exactly? I don't understand. Do you think I said that just to support my argument? It's the reason I think what I think. Anyway, go on, explain your point.

Saying that it is morally justifiable to abort a foetus which will eventually grow into a disabled human is not the same thing as saying disabled people shouldn't be born. The former is a legitimate means of avoiding suffering in the future, the latter is a pointlessly cruel statement because the person is alive here,

It is grossly unfair to say that. Down Syndrome has nothing to do with eugenics because it is not a hereditary thing (unless you take into account that the child of a person with DS would likely have DS, but stats tell me very few DS people successfully have children, so it's hardly relevant). He also never said it

I actually think the artist did a fine job with a character who has an insanely perfect comic book body and wears a skintight outfit all the time. Here she looks more or less like a regular person might if crawling about on a building. I sort of feel like with a character design like that, there are only so many poses

I don't really see a problem with the cover. Spider-Man is drawn in that way quite a lot too, not to emphasise his ass, but cus the spider guys crawl around a lot. It isn't exactly distasteful or unnecessary, it's just a typically silly superhero pose which is common to that character. The most notable thing about

I just remember when Doctor Who was a fun but silly show, primarily for kids, that could still pull off big "event"-type episode which whole families would watch; the Christmas episodes, the big finales, the regeneration episodes, or even just the ones that were rumoured to be especially scary - I remember the hype

I watched the old show plenty growing up, but since 2005 it's been basically a new programme, and they haven't established regeneration amnesia as a thing in this programme. Tennant just slept for a bit and Smith ate lots of food. Capaldi seemed utterly insane.