[-] Doug@midwest.social 10 points 11 months ago

Spent years in exile on a desert planet while being hunted by former apprentice

Dealt with two generations of whiney Skywalker men (mostly joking)

[-] Doug@midwest.social 9 points 1 year ago

That's not necessarily wrong, but it's a dangerous precedent. How many people throughout history have done terrible things to be able to provide for their family? At what point does it become immoral not to take a stand?

[-] Doug@midwest.social 10 points 1 year ago

What kind of monster are you? Do you also prefer beardless Riker? Geordie at Conn? Jellico?

[-] Doug@midwest.social 10 points 1 year ago

You two should probably not date

...or fuck

[-] Doug@midwest.social 10 points 1 year ago

Except in this case others have already tried the same thing with results going from success to death. It's not unique but it is uncommon. This would speak against it as the "best way".

It's hard to convince someone bigoted against you to be your friend. If they won't be your friend the whole concept fails. This shouldn't need to be stated.

Often bigots closest friends are also bigots. Again causing issue. If one close friend points out your shortcomings but the others tell you they aren't shortcomings at all it's much easier to stick with your comfort zone, as it almost always is. Repeated efforts here cause a friendship to falter, which goes back to what was suggested in the first place, separation.

Friendship works on someone open to it working. Whether they already have that friend or not. You can't force someone to accept something they don't want to hear, which is probably the problem you're having accepting the flaws in your own point of view despite the ways they have been pointed out in other's comments.

From what I'd read in to, you're substituting "best way" for "most moral way" without considering that morality is not a standard. To many reducing harm to the masses is far more moral than making friends with bigots. They can, and must, choose to step outside their bigotry in order to leave it behind. Until then they can deal with being on the fringes.

[-] Doug@midwest.social 10 points 1 year ago

We can read the same words and take something different from them. That reads to me like he was able to pretty easily dismiss the temptation. Maybe he would've been tempted like Boromir was, maybe he would've had the resolve of Frodo, maybe he could've held it for much longer like Bilbo.

His Hobbit-sense saved him there. The only one who can tell us with certainly where it lies in relation to Frodo is no longer able to.

[-] Doug@midwest.social 9 points 1 year ago

I see what you're saying, but Frodo literally couldn't have done it without Sam. We see that directly.

We don't know if it could happen the other way around or not because that's not the story we were told.

I'm not trying to diminish what Frodo did but it seems to me the statement "Frodo was the only individual in the world that could do what he did" does so for Sam's contributions.

Honestly all of it wouldn't have worked without all of the surviving Fellowship's (plus Gollum) actions, but Sam's are the most direct.

It seems to me there's a reason that Aragorn didn't bow to Frodo, but all four of the Hobbits. They were all simple folk, not warriors who achieved great things with plenty of sacrifice. Elevating Frodo does a disservice to the others.

[-] Doug@midwest.social 10 points 1 year ago

Season two also isn't the greatest. But its got some solid stories that do affect things later.

Mostly I just can't stand Pulaski

[-] Doug@midwest.social 9 points 1 year ago

If the point was federation then defederation wouldn't be an option.

Defederation is a tool available to instances to protect the greater fediverse

[-] Doug@midwest.social 9 points 1 year ago

Lunch time doubly so

[-] Doug@midwest.social 10 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but Cain was sent off and ended up getting married

[-] Doug@midwest.social 10 points 1 year ago

So secure even you don't know the password. It's like built in MFA.

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