I always thought it was pretty telling that no one ever argued for “alive” just “dead” or “ambiguous.”

The average Pizza Hut pizza is just swimming in grease, to the point where I’ve seen the pepperoni curl enough at the edges to form little pools of it. It’s not really for me, though I can see why people like it, in the same way that there is not really some big secret to why people eat at McDonalds.  Though this…

It’s middle-grade chain pizza. I’d put it above Dominos and Pizza Hut, below Papa Murphy’s, and if you live in a town of more than 20,000, far worse than whatever your best local place is.

I don’t really have a problem with your tone. You’re being pretty blunt, but I’m cool with it if you’ll allow me the same latitude.

“The ONLY way we aren’t having a debate about one person (without malice) using the bodies of others against their will to continue life is if we buy the notion that the other two are…

I just don’t really believe that “modern standards of medical ethics” have covered the debate as to how to deal with a merged transporter being, for what I assume are obvious reasons.

Even if you don’t want to call Neelix and Tuvok dead, with no bodies or consciousness, they’re not exactly alive either. We don’t even r…

“Whose body is this?” isn’t really a semantic argument. The answer is the only germane issue.

I do agree that the introduction of space magic makes it problematic as a precise analogy for anything happening in the real world. It’s more useful for sparking discussions on the philosophy of identity and the nature of the…

My memory of it’s hazy at this point, but I want to say the episodes aren’t even that far apart in the run, and in the second one, she’s arguing with members of her senior staff, who never even mention that she was on their side three weeks ago or whatever.

There’s also the story of Mulgrew refusing to go on until the…

TNG’s transporters could rebuild your entire body at any age from a strand of hair, which seems like an obvious workaround.

Tuvix is a pretty wackadoo episode, but who owns his body isn’t really so cut and dried. If he was just another guy who constantly needed to be hooked up to Tuvok and Neelix to survive, then your reading would be dead on.

However, the show seems to posit that a third consciousness was created by the transporter…

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.

Remember when she passionately argued that Voyager needed to go it alone in the name of incorruptible Federation nobility but also, in a different episode, that recruiting allies was paramount and at the very heart of the Federation’s ethos? Because the show didn’t and backed her wholeheartedly both times.

When you come down to brass tacks, art is generally about style at least as much as substance. Movies almost never treat their subjects with the same level of nuance or rigor as a great philosophical essay or research project write-up because they’re also trying to entertain you. It’s part of why they’re so much more…

“The military doesn’t pre-approve every movie! Just several of them plus a joint marketing effort!” Ultimately, Gunn’s right and the other guy is wrong, but the whole “this is preposterous!” tone doesn’t really seem justified.

Yeah, Psycho vs. Halloween felt like the definitive matchup here. At this point, it’s Myers coasting to victory.

I’m not an armorer, but the IWLMSC says no, and I don’t think armorers are supposed to be responsible for personally manufacturing blanks on set in real time.

It’s pretty hard to come up with a reasonable explanation of how they got there that isn’t the result of criminal negligence at the very least.

Yeah, I watch a possibly unhealthy amount of horror and I’ve only seen three of these.  As a fan, I appreciate the effort, though that seems like it could be an argument either way, given how deep they apparently had to dig and the fact that classroom literary adaptations made the list.

It’s Kingo and that weird hairless Deviant.  Why do you think Kumail got in such good shape?

Kids love the Eternals! You’ve ruined...uh... I want to say Mercury? And the blond one! Are they the group with the dog?!? How dare you!

What SHOULD happen is no one should give a shit about censoring what’s almost certainly a pretty chaste gay relationship.  What WILL happen is a bunch of internal calculations at Disney about whether the bad press from doing it themselves will be more or less costly in the long run than making things marginally more…