Oh I know, I'm right there with you. But I get a level of entertainment out of it.

I'm starting to think we should have all candidates pass a basic leadership and competency challenge to be able to be president. (This is not a series take)

Ah, my bad, I missed that.

And heretics

Given that a large amount of humans in the imperium are esentially slave laborers and menial workers, treated only marginally better than livestock, I don't know about that.

But it also varies quite a bit from world to world. I'm sure some are good about it.

I don't think the people who are supporters of jury nullification are saying such laws are fine.

From the campaigns I've DMed, I've gone for a bit of an in-between. My primary focus is to have a fun, shared narrative. I'll always let players do stupid things that get them into grave danger. But at most, I'll usually only ever kill a few of the PCs.

If they act carefully, they can avoid getting into that situation all together. If they act stupid, they may have some deaths on their hands, but never a TPK. I don't want that kind of narrative dead end.

The other thing, is that I will never put the players in such a situation in which there isn't a way out of it. Usually this comes down to abusing the rule of cool a bit. Maybe they use a well aimed shatter to collapse a cave and separate themselves from their enemies. Maybe they jump down the cliff into the river below. Maybe the enemies have taken such a beating themselves that they find they aren't willing to fight to the death.

I disagree. Laws aren't always moral. Texas could outlaw donations to the Rainbow Railroad and it would be wrong, the organization should still exist.

But in this case it is pretty clear that the plagiarism machine is in fact, bad and should not exist, at least not in it's current form.

Most people live in cities.

They absolutely did want to squeeze every last drop out of you. They've never not. The only difference is that we've had decades of regulatory capture, unrestricted corporate mergers, and lower tax rates for the rich. So now they're free to squeeze much harder than they have previously.

Good. I hope they get the benefits they deserve.