Had to look that last phrase up.
Good Dog, I am old!
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A spokesperson for The Violence Project, which records data on mass shootings in the U.S. since 1966 with âfour or moreâ people killed in public (here), told Reuters via email that âNashville is the first case of a transâ perpetrator in their database and per their methodology. They sent Reuters a database of shootings with 190 entries.
Right wing uses stochastic terrorism itâs super effective.
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I have to disagree with that second cartoon.
Anarchy isnât in the race, we were riding Glue Factory Girl who is eating the grass just past the starting line. If we were up there we would have shoved that spear in Mass Arrests before moving next to Fascism or Dictatorship to see if we could do it again.
Donât worry, weâll try to save Glue Factory Girl from the glue factory after the race.
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Nice that somebody who had the keys to stables was there.
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I know that Ruben Bolling sometimes posts as a contributor on this bbs, but man I saw this and laughed out loud. I almost never do that these days.
Thanks @ruben_bolling . You made my day.
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⌠there is a @RubenBolling account but I donât think he checks it
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Thatâs brilliant!
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First panel,
And below the comic it says,
It is funny to think about the morality in the fantasy genre, because often it just seems more like a war between species which are both trying to exterminate each other, rather than a moral issue. They have to find ways to explain why humans are justified to kill orcs or goblins or whatever on sight. The crudest reason is simply that they are ugly and we are beautiful. For example the elves in Lord of the Rings are always the fairest of all creatures, and the orcs are hideous monsters. Aesthetics seems to play some even greater role, because we can see that once Gollum is corrupted he even now prefers ugliness and darkness itself to beauty and light, even in the type of food he wants to eat, or the type of art he would want to look at.
Having bad taste in art is hardly a justification of genocide though, so they often need something more. Here we start seeing things that more resemble real world colonial justifications. The orcs, unlike the noble elves, are simply uncivilized. They are brutal and ignorant. They are savage creatures who havenât read any Shakespeare. Well, except for maybe Romeo and Juliet, but everyone has read that. Still not enough Shakespeare to be considered civilized though. Since the good guys always win in the end, and are typically outnumbered, this becomes pretty important. The orcs will brutally, savagely kill a few dozen elves, and the elves will respond in a very civilized fashion by wiping out the entire orc civilization. You can even still see this kind of justification in contemporary colonialism (cough Israel cough).
In the original Dungeons & Dragons rule set, the orcs were simply âontologically evilâ, that is to say, born with a kind of âevilnessâ in their essence. It was therefore not only justified, but a moral obligation for paladins to kill them on sight. If they didnât kill them on sight, they would risk losing their âgoodâ status, and being kicked out of the Order of Paladins. Pretty brutal stuff, if you think about it. In the latest editions, this sort of thing has been seen to be problematic, and stripped out. Now the orcs simply have an evil culture, most likely because they werenât exposed to John Rawls at University.
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I see the canât/Kant pun counter has been reset!
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Yeah, on the 10 year anniversary there was an intentionally bad canât/Kant joke
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Via todayâs Toronto 
Star.
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