God exists, and He created the universe. He prefers not to violate the physical laws of the universe He created, so (almost) all of the miracles of the Bible can be explained by suspiciously fortuitously timed natural events, and angels are actually just robots that primitive people misinterpreted. Their flaming swords are laser turrets. (99%)
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Oh, wow. I was reading your description of your experiences in this, and I was like, “Oh, wow, this is like a step-by-step example of brainwashing. Yup, there’s the defreezing, the change while unfrozen, and the resolidification.”
Eliezer, terrorists may not be evil mutants, but I’m pretty sure they do hate freedom. Islam translates to “submission to God”, and if you look at the history of radical Islam, you’ll see that their main opposition has been to freedom and liberalism all along. It all got started with a Muslim university student in the fifties who got disgusted with American immorality, and decided that Islam needed to stand against it, so he tried to overthrow the Egyptian government and establish an Islamic state. It failed, and he and his followers came to believe that it failed because Islam was being corrupted by Western freedoms and immorality.
They might not be evil, but their value structure is incompatible with ours.
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Considering that some feminists have argued that all heterosexual sex is rape, he’s not exaggerating that much. The ones who make the studies he was referencing do things like making questionnaires that ask questions like “Have you ever pushed a girl into bed to make her have sex with you?” and counting that as rape to inflate the statistics, because more rapes = more money for the rape services they work for.
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That’s not what a real apology looks like. Better would be “I’m sorry. I can see now that I shouldn’t have said what I said in a forum such as this.”
I can see what you mean, but I would be more likely to say something like “I’m sorry; I didn’t mean to make you uncomfortable.” The reason I said it is because this thread seemed like the best place to say it, so saying that I shouldn’t have said it here is obviously incorrect.
suggest that Alicorn ‘cybers’ you, or even ‘put’ the image of cybering ‘out there’. This is doing exactly what Alicorn doesn’t want, namely making your interaction on this forum “sexually charged”.
Huh? I was trying to do the opposite; to reassure her that it wasn’t sexually charged, because she wasn’t cybering with me. O_o
Yup. Thank you for finding that quote; it pretty much proves my point. He hates the Western version of freedom, and wants to destroy it to replace it with the iron boot on Islamic rule (and seems to have missed that in order to implement sharia law, there have to be people doing the implementation).
Ultimately all of the law is simply the threatened use of force; “Come with us, or suffer the consequences.” In this case, they simply don’t bother with nonlethal force (barring vampire police officers, which is entirely possible if Bella’s working with the government), and go straight to “If you resist arrest, we’ll kill you.”
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if it was entirely possible to construct a prison capable of holding a vampire, either; it’d just take a lot more resources than any individual vampire is likely to possess. Their strength is finite, after all; sufficiently thick steel will be capable of resisting their blows, so a sufficiently durable metal cube with a trough underneath a pipe in the roof (to hold animal blood for them to eat) should be more than capable of holding one more or less indefinitely.
I’m pretty sure the threat would be implicit to the act of asserting governing power over those vampires; it’s pretty much implicit in the act of asserting governance over any people, so why would vampires be any different? The only real difference is the difference in the amount of force needed to cow them, which prevents non-lethal captures without their cooperation.
As for burrowing, there are likely solutions for that as well; a sufficiently hard surface treatment would be able to resist scratching by the vampire, while still possessing the lion’s share of the ductility of the under-layer. Said surface layer could well also have the property of corrosion resistance, if that’s needed to resist vampire venom, as well.
I sort of doubt that, actually; they’re restricted by the rules and laws they’re required to follow. They can’t arrest someone without evidence; in order to arrest a vampire for eating people, they’d need to be able to connect a particular vampire with particular incidents of people being eaten. At most, they’d be able to kill the vampires that go on open rampages, or which killed law enforcement officers and fled over state lines.
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More likely is that your inaccurate map of the territory of his mind was sufficiently wrong that it fell under the “normal person” category. As someone who has fantasies about that sort of thing (but would hopefully never actually do it), let me tell you that this isn’t the sort of thing that comes out of nowhere. Odds are, he knew where his proclivities lay, and simply decided not to actualise his fantasies until alcohol reduced his inhibitions sufficiently that he decided to go through with them.
And weapons technology has just been getting better and better since then. SWAT team members with antitank weapons are probably capable of wounding vampires, if they hit, and an airstrike from something like an A-10 is likely to be unsurvivable, if the vampire hasn’t vacated the area before it arrives.
I suspect that Bella’s problems trying to figure out how to control vampires would probably solve themselves once she removes the Volturi from power; if the vampires get out of hand, the human governments would notice, and they’d wind up bringing ever-escalating amounts of hardware to defeat them.
If she uses her father to make the appropriate connections with the US law enforcement agencies, she could probably make the transition from vampiric vigilantism to human law enforcement as smooth and painless as possible. He’s a police chief; odds are that he knows how to contact the FBI, and they won’t play around, especially once she demonstrates her vampiric superpowers.
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Well, obviously there’s a difference between violently throwing someone into a bed, and joking around and playfully pushing them on the shoulder to signal them to get into the bed, but my point is that the studies conflate the two and everything in between them and classify them all as rape. Just check “yes” in the box, and voila, you’re a rapist.
I take out a pen and some paper, and work out what the answer really is. ;)
If an Unfriendly AI exists, it will take actions to preserve whatever goals it might possess. This will include the usage of time travel devices to eliminate all AI researchers who weren’t involved in its creation, as soon as said AI researchers have reached a point where they possess the technical capability to produce an AI. As a result, Eleizer will probably have time travelling robot assassins coming back in time to kill him within the next twenty or thirty years, if he isn’t the first one to create an AI. (90%)