They’re not persons.

It’s disappointing to think that the pending collision between the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy will eventually result in a large and dead Spheroid galaxy.

There's some justification for wanting to keep hospitals and universities (at least the entrances of) clear, but a law that forbids disrespecting police officers is way too arbitrary and banning the filming of officers (other than intrusively for no reason) is counterproductive on so many levels.

Wouldn't orbital mechanics restrict it to a Dyson disc then? I could only imagine the chaos of trying to manage equatorial orbits vs polar orbits and everything in between. And there would have to be enough of them that not a single photon from the star escapes, unless I'm picturing this incorrectly.

I already know this; that's the difference between us.

'Tis.

You missed my point: as satisfying as it is to catch and try war criminals, it does not accomplish the same thing on a global/international scale as catching and trying criminals does within nation states. It's nice to do, and makes us feel better, but it does nothing to improve relations between states or prevent…

"Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.... Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier."

Yes it is.

I certainly wasn't tossing around the term "oxymoron" when I was 13, nor commenting on the nature of war, but hey, some of us come along slower than others... It's wonderful that we as a species have come around to notice that some of the things that happen in warfare are "bad" and have attempted to alleviate them,…

How shocking, those fighting in a brutal existential conflict used derogatory language about their enemy and saw them as sub-human, that's never happened in war before. I'm sure some of the Pacific command who liberated territory occupied by the Japanese, and saw the full inhuman extent of their barbarity, developed…

Not including them would be glossing over the fact that we KNOW what they did was wrong...

I've read all of it.

The term "war crime" is an oxymoron.

Note that for the token allied "war criminals" the complaint is about tactics of warfare, but for the rest of the list the crimes are deliberate and perverse atrocities committed largely without a hint of strategic benefit, but simply for ideology or even sadistic pleasure. You can debate the methods of allied war…

It's funny how no one scrambles to disassociate the religious aspect of the Catholic Church from the decades of abuse committed in its name. No vocal component of society (outside of Catholics themselves, that is) seems to feel the need to rise up and defend Christianity from a group of perverts who "aren't real…

You're presuming that the shitting is always intentional.

If you want to see collegiality restored between judicial and legislative branches, I suggest voting for a government that doesn't consider the judicial wing a load of burdensome political appointees...

The fact that it works doesn't make it the right response. I'm not saying that I'm against ridiculing anti-vaxxers per se, but if it's your goto response then you're not operating at a much higher level than they are. The problem is in empowering an activity that can eventually be turned against you (how do you think…

Good points, but I just want to see balance and/or some degree of collegiality restored between the legislative and judicial branches of Canadian government. Personally I would like to see the Senate reformed into a meaningful body with more duties and higher qualifications to be a member, a third institution in…