Orogun01

You'd think that you could take him to the Pearl afterwards so that he may seal his "hardening" by "licking some posts" and finally becoming a man. That one is also sexual!

Have you checked the examples I provided? I would really like to know which are these games you talk about, because in my years of gaming all JRPGs had the same structure of the PC being "special" or as we say on the West: The Chosen One. FF breakdown of the effeminate villain: FFVI- The first years after playing it I though Kefka was a woman he's a man FFVII- Sepiroth with his long flowing hair and bishounen features doesn't look the least effeminate to you? FFVIII- Seifer Almasy, who looks like David Bowie. FFX- Seymour Guado

You argue a difference in motivation not on their character; both genres follow the Chosen One motif. Although FF is one of the franchises where it least explicit since it usually focuses on a motley crew of unique characters fighting some greater evil and an effeminate villain, and that's the plot of every game on the series I would argue that the Chosen One is more present on JRPGs: Breath of Fire series Star Ocean series The legend of Gaia and the rest of games vaguely related to it These are just a few. In all these games the main character has the same trait: a hidden power that comes to shine later on the game and makes him vital to defeat the evil terrorizing the land. Whether his motives are internal or external does not change this fact.

Sounds like a great model, yet I have to wonder if is applicable to every society? You are Danish, right? How big is the separation amongst classes? and how would going to jail affect an individual's life after release? I ask this because I'm trying to figure if this model could be applied here on the States, my expectations are low but if it could grant results the decrease on crime could be significant.

Well, he's French. Sacre Bleu!

Both of you make good points, the solution is on balancing. No sensible human being would deny care to a sick person, so a compromise is not out of the question. Using existing facilities instead of building a few that specialize on these young criminals, is a more feasible option. There are already mental facilities for the youth, a ward dedicated to criminal cases could be added and rehabilitation could be funded by the state as it were an individual paying. Of course that would only leave the matter of balancing that expense. As for "rehabilitation"; I believe it to be futile to some degrees. While it can turn them into functioning members of society, I question the quality of life that these individuals will enjoy. As they will carry the stigma of their actions for all their lives, which is why I don't really believe in successful rehabilitation. At the cost of sounding cynical I will say that the main concern is not to heal, but to prevent a repeat of the act and to assimilate them into the economic structure of society. These are mental illness after all, there is not really a cure there is just learning to live with them.

There's a good chance they'd just call Shepard insane. Especially that Turian councilor. Still the asari would be inclined to accept it and where the asari go the turian and salarian follow.

In an utilitarian setting, perpetrators lose. Because: 1-They will never be completely rehabilitated 2- The victim's pain or their relatives 3- The spending of resources In a humanitarian setting you would rehabilitate the perpetrators because of faith on mankind and all that But is my fear that we may be making a loophole for them to escape. This case was obviously premeditated assault and the lack of guilty mind should have no bearing on the outcome of a trial. I don't think that resources should be spent on specific and rare cases that could be treated by already existing facilities. @Rosbjerg: You wanted my anecdote? I'm Cuban, 'nuff said. If you want specifics we'll go to PM.

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WHAT?! No Darth Vader?!

Dogs kill dogs and cats kill the offspring of other cats - most animals have absolutely no problem with killing their own kind - but their own "social" group, now that's a different story. Humans are much the same, luckily for us our layer of 'civilization' or 'culture' or whatever you might want to call it, marks everyone else (as long as they pose no immediate threat) as part of our group. Add just the right amount of apathy or desperation and you see just how thin that layer really is. That sounds like an anecdote Care to share it?

And like Shale he also looks like a rock.

Children do understand the correlation of cause and consequence, you just need to make it clear to them. If my mother told me "Stay quiet or I will bust your skull" that's a perfect example of stating the consequence. The problem is that the brats believe that they will get away with it because they are kids. Oh, and don't blame the parents is not their fault that they spawned the devil's child. Actually this ties into more of the "nature v nurture" debate. The children could possibly have still been ok, even if predisposed to "evil" if their parents had done something. Not saying it would have happened inevitably but there's always the chance, but that's under the assumption that they did nothing. Actually, it would fall more under Operant conditioning since evil it's an ethical argument and not psychological. What for us is evil; because we are conditioned to believe so, has not quite formed on the infantile mind. A kid doesn't quite understand why is killing wrong and the more sheltered he is from the subject the more desensitized to it he will be.

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I wasn't specifically comparing them as products, just the problem of exchanging a pile of perfectly well working MP5's that your spec ops are used to using, for a new and yet unproven weapon. It might be actually be a far better weapon - just these habits change slowly, if at all. And well maintained guns last a long time. True, but the US army is looking for a change; just look at the HK 416 or the XM18. Plus special ops are irregular groups they could deploy some Vectors along MP5s. As for the MP5's future; SWAT still needs them

Children do understand the correlation of cause and consequence, you just need to make it clear to them. If my mother told me "Stay quiet or I will bust your skull" that's a perfect example of stating the consequence. The problem is that the brats believe that they will get away with it because they are kids. Oh, and don't blame the parents is not their fault that they spawned the devil's child.

I think the design is a bit too recent to put full trust in it no? The Kriss seems to be like the Five-Seven pistol. I love it, its extremely well made - but it costs an arm and a leg (not to mention the FS uses expensive and rare ammo). My grandad's sixty year old trophy VIS 35 does the same job for a fraction of the cost. From my admittedly small knowledge of firearms (my dad wrote a book on the subject, I just picked up a little from him over the years) the Kriss seems like a bodyguards/police weapon that will see limited use. It will also have to compete with the likes of H&K MP5 which more or less do the same thing but are much more popular. And if my knowledge of US laws is correct the Kriss, like all new full auto guns will be available only to military and police. Which will mean that only the police will end up using it and so far as I know police purchases aren't enough to make a new gun really sell well (the Five-Seven had this issue until it was released in a civilian version). In say a real eg: middle east combat area like Iraq or Afghanistan one of the shorter and concealable AK types would make much more sense given the abundance of ammo and the proven durability. However, if you were a nut for personal protection and living in a western country where maintenance and money aren't an issue then I suppose, theoretically, it would be a good purchase. They will probably release a semi-automatic civilian version (AR-15 style) nothing that can't be worked around and then onto the zombie apocalypse The Mayans predicted it! As to Vector vs. MP5; the Vector does have some pros over the MP5. More compact and easy to carry; it uses the 45. ACP ammo, so more stopping power.

Just finished Bad Company 2. The plot; same as MW2: fight the russians, crash a satellite recover something. Yet for a shooter you spend most of the game learning how to ride every vehicle Despite being an absolute MW2 rip-off it even makes fun of them with dialog such as: "If we don't go the'll send some special force pussies with heartbeat sensors" or " Snowmobiles are for sissies". BTW: Can anyone recommend some good rpgs?

Well the Kriss is a submachine gun, you can't compare it with a shotgun. Still the Vector may be a contender against the MP5. Can't beat it though.

To the OP: you forgot to include Maggie's perspective. She obviously think that processing these children through the system will make them worse. It's fair to say that the difference between amateur and pro is that you went to prison-school; treating young offenders as adults may end up creating a worse creature.

wrath might have had more luck if he declared that russian lit = dark rather than nihilism = dark. am being hyperbolic and am certain that somebody can identify a famous russian author who did not do dark... but we cannot think of one at the moment. HA! Good Fun! Tolstoy? Nabokov?

I liked Waterworld. Sometimes I feel like I am the only person in the world who did When Black Death cigarettes went out of business in 1999, I quit smoking. I enjoyed the "Surgeon General's Warning: If You Smoke These, They Will Kill You". They changed to "Surgeon General's Warning: If you smoke these, I will find you and I will kill you."

$310 millions the first day on US and U.K sales alone. Five days later $510 millions worldwide. As of January 18th over 1 billion revenue in sales. Oh; and those are just the numbers for MW2. # 1 entertainment industry in the world: Gaming!! Not movies with blue treehuggers. Even those numbers don't beat WoW... Which earns (every month) 100 million (more, I used 11 million as the subscriber number instead of 11.5) for acti-blizz. Which over the course of a single year beats MW2 without actually releasing anything. Assuming that every person picks up a copy of Cataclysm on one day, that's 460 million. I think that they only count sales not payed subscriptions.