Karzkin

I think that's rubbish. YA fiction is largely defined by the themes it explores, and those themes are not often explored in other literary fiction or genre fiction. YA is ...

I guess. But it's not really about legislation. Legislation is only a stopgap measure. Real change comes from changing people's attitudes about oppressed people, and their attitudes about the power ...

I have to ask @Nate, why do you (and the mods in general) keep only cracking down on personal attacks, but let rampant transphobia slide? The former might hurt feelings, ...

What? Nobody died at Brook Farm or the Oneida community. And neither of them attempted any form of eugenics or really any medical research at all.

While I agree, we're not all Americans, yo. The problem (and the solution) is bigger than just the laws or constitution of a single nation.

And I would go back to the transgender topic, in terms of how it is a mental illness, but I don't want to attract Karzkin again so I won't, You ...

A lot of you munchkins probably never saw her around here, but Kit is perhaps the most incredible person I've ever met. We went to the same university, and knowing ...

^ Right. While you might say "well this or that author had bi-polar", what about all the people with bi-polar who are not great authors, or lawyers, or whatever? What ...

I'm not talking about belief, I'm talking about metacognition; one's attitudes about beliefs. Saying you will never ever change your mind about something no matter what is irrational. That's like ...

i always will do See, this bit is the problem. Believing in something is one thing. But still believing despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary is illogical, irrational, and intellectually ...

^ Right. This doesn't fix the problem, it just moves it out of sight. It actually blows my mind that this is a real thing that real people are doing ...

And people who enjoy terrible cartoons.

Yes, we understood. We just reject your claim that personal anecdata is the same as real evidence.

Kafka, just because we can't currently observe gods doesn't mean we will never have the capacity to observe gods (if gods exist - obviously if they do not they cannot ...

I dunno man, humans have always had a predilection for extreme violence. I mean, which edition of Call of Duty did Jack the Ripper play? (I bet I could 1v1 ...