House of the Devil, It Follows, Suspiria, 10 Cloverfield Lane, The Invitation, The Witch, The Descent. The definition of horror is always a little fuzzy and some of those are maybe more in other genres, but they’re all good and adrenaline-heavy and horror-trope-heavy, so. The Others is imo good btw.

I don’t agree with Covfefe’s Squid suggestion (not that it really seemed be a suggestion, more of a thought experiment), but on your separate point: consequences for rape do absolutely decrease the number of rapes. The fact that castration doesn’t prevent castrated re-offending doesn’t suggest that consequences for…

I didn’t say you had said that and I actually already explicitly said in this thread that I’m not against surrogacy entirely, although even if I was I’d be entitled to discuss that opinion without being insulted. How rude, judgemental, and downright weird of you to make personal comments just because someone disagrees…

No, nothing I’ve said has only been true if surrogates had no will. And if you think no-one is forced to be a surrogate, you’re misinformed.

It isn’t actually true that adopting as a gay couple is more difficult than hiring a surrogate and establishing legal parenthood for a child born by a surrogate, but I’ll leave that aside because sure, yeah, men and infertile women who for some reason can’t adopt and want children do exist. It’s the same as with…

I don’t judge anyone for struggling with infertility either, but I prefer not to refrain from judging an industry and its practices, and talking frankly about the exploitation within it, just because some of the industry’s customers have sympathetic circumstances. Of course individuals aren’t awful humans for wanting…

Yeah, I saw that. A commenter said that 45k is an exploitatively low wage for nine months of dangerous and painful work. In response, you asked if normal (presumably people who aren’t rich enough to pay much more than that) should “have to” pay much more than that to surrogates. The answer to that is no, no-one could…

No, not that entirely. My point was that your question “I assume you think all people, even normals, should have to pay more than 500k?” was fundamentally wrong-headed in assuming that men and infertile women ever have to make use of a woman’s gestational and birthing labor and put her health at risk.

A lawyer can’t take care of a surrogate—lawyers can’t prevent gestation and birth from involving a likelihood of serious, including fatal, health damage that’s far greater than the health and safety risks that are taken as legally or morally acceptable in any industry with male workers.

No-one “has to” pay anything for a surrogate because people don’t have to have a child with their own genes or hugely risk another woman’s health to get one.

You mean white couples, not white women. Let’s not erase men’s disproportional role in exploiting poor women through surrogacy.

There’s a lot wrong with the surrogacy industry. It’s right up there as one of the industries that most egregiously infringes on workers’ health and safety rights.

Massive indicates one thing in terms of the scientific classification of stars, and another thing in terms of the moral gravity of deathly, unwarranted persecution of civilians.

Massive persecution isn’t relative. McCarthyism doesn’t need camps or a particular number of official prosecutions explicitly for communism to be a massive persecution.

“Trained professionals” necessarily means members of the professional class which is in itself a specific, non-representative demographic category. Consider that people who grew up poor and often are poor as adults are by far the most most likely to be the victims of crimes and also the most likely to be falsely…

Even setting aside individual retribution, maintaining a legal deterrent against rape and poisoning is a good use of public money.

Not flipping, flipping out. The US had a very extreme reaction including massively persecuting their own people (supposed communists etc.) in reaction to an ultimately unfulflilled possibility of homeland deaths, which contrasts poorly with how Americans often talk about the French situation in WW2.

Tell someone else to ease off.

Arguable, but, either way, the French sacrificed a lot and were by far the more vulnerable out of all the Allied Powers just by simple fact of land geography. Both the UK and (moreso) the US got involved very late in the game, after turning a blind eye to the most extreme and disgusting war crimes, and then turned…

Haha, no. To be clear, I’m talking about post-Weimar Germany here, not about Trump.