Well but every child you bring into the world is going to die. And they don't get a say in whether their lives would be "worth it" or long enough. Everyone gets a lifetime. I mean, if Louise saw that her daughter was going to die almost instantly at 45 by being struck by a car, would that also be selfish?

Indoctrination?

Maybe. But Rory doesn't seem to planning to hang out with the DAR types. She's, apparently, going to live off her expectations in SH.

You think Marvel expected to make over $300 million domestic on Dr. Strange? That sounds like lunacy to me. And if they planned to beat Suicide Squad with Strange, why did they spend less money on the movie and considerably less on marketing?

You mean that Disney gave Feige more power and authority? That's more like a vote of confidence than evidence of panic.

Because they're happy it's making a large profit? Dr. Strange seems to be doing healthy, solid numbers.

It also works with the theme that different human cultures approach the alien "puzzle" differently. I loved the confused math guy who couldn't understand why the aliens didn't seem to "get" simple algebra but could understand more advanced math. If you didn't experience linear time, algebra wouldn't be "natural" to…

Well there's no guarantee that America will continue on in a unified way. Personally, I'm hoping the west coast will break off to form Pacifica. We get Hawaii and Vancouver. Alaska is on its own.

Mr. Potter is merely guilty of being Mr. Potter. That is his crime. It is also his punishment.

Maybe. Though the movie made clear that the army was leery about letting anyone in and was trying to limit the number of who they allowed in. The colonel at the start didn't want to allow Louise access at all and complained about how everyone with a Top Secret clearance wanted to get to see the aliens. And I mean one…

I mean it depends on how you define "works". If all you have is "perpetuates itself," most systems work. By that metric feudalism is awesome and we should never had switched it up.

He made cannibalism and mass murder look "fun"?

Not over rape scenes. Rape as a lazy writing tool to avoid having to actually write real plot or characterization.

Well I think they'd have less grounds to complain.

Well then I'd call it exactly what they are talking about - rape as an easy/lazy way to raise the stakes and/or get the audience's attention.

Well isn't it not just that rape happens in a story but how it's used? Like is it used as a short cut for emotional development? Is it used to raise the stakes quickly so the writers don't have to do plot heavy lifting?

So, again, you're measuring based on landmass rather than actual person by person numbers. Clinton won the popular vote by well over two million. Even if every one of Trump's voters is "alt-right" (which is clearly nonsense), that's not half the country. And "discounting illegal voters"? Who are these illegal…

It's possible I'm not grasping your point. You said it was a "paradox" that we acknowledge rape is horrible but don't want it to be used as the "ultimate stake" in fiction. I don't see how that is paradoxical unless you do think rape should be used to raise the stakes in fiction? Of maybe I am not getting what you…

Nope. What they are saying is that using the horror of rape as a lazy way of upping the stakes in your story is gross.

So you're measuring support for the movement based on landmass rather than population? That seems like an odd metric.