Recent content by The 5th Hour

This is a topic that interests me greatly, as a trans-humanist myself I have no problem in asserting that I will be alive in one way or another for a very very very long time. People seem to be afraid if their present body being replaced by a cheap imitation of themselves, ie a robot in this...

You really thought about this didn't you? Haha. I raised an eyebrow at your suggestion at 'culling' people from the system. Unfortunately this is lawfully impossible - the right to life is generally considered on of the basic human rights. Yes, I know the death penalty is still around in...

I didn't say we don't treat murders well, but the very existence of the reality of murders points to a fault somewhere in the nature of law and the keeping of it. There is no perfect system because humans aren't prefect. I'm skeptical of the idea of punishing people who lie about being raped...

Yes I agree that rape is and will never be the black and white occurrence that murder is (not talking about motive or means - just outcome). Law isn't perfect and law enforcement isn't prefect either, unfortunately it's the reason rape is an almost impossible issue to solve perfectly and why...

That was a very interesting thread - I look forward to reading you next time. It saddens me that people will jump faster on the issue of gun ownership and it's relationship to violence than they will on the issue of rape. It's sad because people seem to naturally shy away, or just 'not see'...

I gotta hand my vote to Terry; I find his humor all around more entertaining and a tad more original. I guess while you're biased towards Rankin I gotta say Pratchett is a childhood favorite of mine so I'm a little biased too.

Grave of the Fireflies. Made me cry. Made everyone cry.

Films are just another way of story telling, and the only way you can tella good story is to appeal to the emotions of the audience. That's how they connect and can fell 'part' of the story. And like most stories they open up our imaginations to new worlds and ideas that we have never even...

The world of the book 1984 does seem to point out the amusing paradox of the freedoms we are willing to give up in order to stay free - and it's true that is the very essence of law in contemporary society. But this is a perfectly safe and normal way of society dealing with issues - the...

I've never played D&D but it's definitely on my to-do list simply because it looks like a game that requires such an immersion of imagination. I'm sorry I tried not to compare games and books in the sense that one is/isn't better than other other. I just wanted to point out that books have a...

Gudday- Change is the order of nature, and culture is no exception to the rule; yet it saddens me that books have found themselves replaced in our world of gadgets and games. Games can do things that books never could, they can provide us with powerful forms of interactive entertainment and...