Damn it, now I need this to happen.

Though even that has a distinctly post-Abrahammic/post-Enlightenment spin on things.

Usually, it's a difference of type.

…still relatively important.

Real versus real enough for government work.

There's a wonderful scholar on these transitions named Walter Ong, and in one of his books he cites a neat bit from a study on why Russian peasants who got literate late in life just flat out fail intelligence tests:
The test has a bit where you organize objects into groups.
The correct answer is by materials or…

The Stone of Fail?

I don't think the fact that you aren't obligated to take many of the routes people must take to become parents obviates the more basic obligation.

Man, that's right. That guy!

I'm not certain being born into the burden of caring for people younger and weaker than you is something that requires consent? Maybe I'm misreading but isn't that a general obligation?

It took me a bit to figure out what you were saying here, but I gotcha. Though some of that antipathy is couched in terms that are such jargon, really, that I find it hard to think of it as anything but a figure in D's argument.

I feel like not killing people and preventing people from killing people goes a long way.

Some of the comics have gone at least a bit in that direction, the Court of Owls storyline, for instance.

I in no way had the impression Syndrome was going to democratize super power so much as sell it.

Yeah, and with Edna Mode stealing all of her scenes its hard to say that there aren't non-murderous non-envious non-specials around. Not too mention the kid from the neighborhood.

That's another thing I see in reading this movie, there seems to be a strong sense that the telling the characters do carries the message more than what they do.

Oof, there is so much I could write about this:
- the numerous times the 'engage' theme is reflected in the non-murderous non-powered characters
- the roles of Gaze-r Beam and Mirage as specials who chose different paths
- the way the film treats the theme of difference and cohesion in general

I thought that was an important aspect of the theme that Mr. Incredible is a good man (heroic, altruistic) but not so great a guy (oblivious, distractable, rage & validation problems).

Ah, c'mon, by his description it's just like Valhalla except it's tiny adorable people rather than horrifyingly valorous murderous thieves.

They did put some effort into letting Banks be a little funny at least.