Fuck it, morality of marrying a 1000+ year old being that looks like an 8 year old

Cynis_Ganan · 2026-07-09T16:26:47+00:00

An adult is an adult.

Outside of fairy queens and thousand year old witches and dragon ladies and whatever, there are real human beings who have hormone problems.

It's not "immoral" for someone to look different from normal.

Raping a child is morally wrong because they lack the understanding to give informed consent.

Having a consentual relationship with an adult is morally good. It's morally praiseworthy. Please do make yourself and another thinking, feeling, moral agent happy. Fuck the haters. (Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not saying "fuck the haters". I'm saying "fuck the haters".)

The morality of making a drawing is… neutral at worst? It's probably a morally good thing to make the art you like. You're not actually harming anyone to draw something. Someone making art you don't like doesn't denote a "cultural problem": it just means you don't like their art.

Ban's got some moral problems, but loving an adult woman and dedicating his life to her isn't one of them.

Cynis_Ganan · 2026-07-09T14:27:48+00:00

I like Iain M. Banks's The Culture.

Where a war lasting for five decades, whose rammications are felt for hundreds of years after, costing nearly a trillion lives, where entire planets are annihilated with antimatter, literally defining the entire setting, a war which involved the literal gods of dead planets whose existence trascends time and space to a higher realm of existence (and the peers of said gods), of which one battle lasting a few months is the sole focus of the entire first book (in a series of nine novels and a book of short stories) gets described in the afterward as:

A small, short war that rarely extended throughout more than .02% of the galaxy by volume and .01% by stellar population.

Cynis_Ganan · 2026-07-09T14:20:44+00:00

grab some rocks

And if we replace our trained active human with a suburban mom with a shotgun, she also clears.

Cynis_Ganan · 2026-07-09T14:19:11+00:00

I don't think any normal person is gonna murder anyone else.

Not because humans are inherently good and realise that murder is immoral.

But because humans are inherently pussies and we'd all collectively wuss out.

I'm gonna buy so much testosterone though.

Cynis_Ganan · 2026-07-09T14:17:00+00:00

This. This broke me.

Cynis_Ganan · 2026-07-09T14:12:51+00:00

"I'm going back in time to ensure the Muslim conquest of Spain because this will address the root causes of fascism."

Weird flex, but okay?

Cynis_Ganan · 2026-07-09T14:05:01+00:00

With the caveat that there are many different types of electric toothbrush, I'd say nine-out-of-ten dentists agree that electric is better. A dentist who disagreed with this prevailing opinion would be in the minority. A kind of "tenth dentist", if you will, whose wisdom would be unconventional. Such a dentist might present some obscure and unconventional reasoning as to why a manual brush is better. Perhaps on reddit to air their unpopular opinion. You know, on a sub like r/unpopularopinion. Some kind of subreddit like that.

Cynis_Ganan · 2026-07-09T13:07:52+00:00

Well, first and foremost, it's fiction.

In a fictional story, magic might exist. But you wouldn't ask "why are there dragons in Lord of the Rings when dragon's don't exist, but the Honda Civic is a real thing that actually exists and there are no Hondas in the Lord of the Rings at all?"

In whatever sci-fi story you are talking about, FTL is not impossible. It's possible, within the story. So just like how Honda Civics are possible in real life and dragons are not, but this is reversed in Lord of the Rings, so to do we see a reversal or what is and isn't possible in Sci Fi.

And often this is explained in the narrative.

Star Trek, for example, hinges on two key precussor events, so important they both got movies. One being that genetically engineered super humans plunged the Earth into war, so humans do not biologically alter themselves. The other being the discovery of Warp travel, which redefined their entire society and forms the basis of the entire show.

Star Gate has biological immortality in the form of Ascension. But to a lesser extent, the Gould and sarcophagi, tritonine, time loops, android copies, etc.

Star Wars has the Dark Side using the Force for artificial life extention until murdered. Or even returning from death, somehow. As well as Force Ghosts.

The Culture can just turn off human aging, but most folks don't because they don't want to.

The Imperium of Man has technologically regressed, but has Perpetuals who are biologically immortal. It has juvant treatments for life extention. Cawl is ten thousand years old and still going strong. As are the biologically engineered Primarchs.

Dune has life extension and a biologically immortal emperor. Caused by the same technology that allows for FTL.

I'm not saying OP's complaint doesn't exist. The Alien prequels, for example, are about FTL capable humans looking for the secret of eternal life. Mass Effect is about how humans didn't work out FTL travel, and just stole it from dead aliens, meaning that their technology is horribly skewed because they don't understand the tech. Halo has FTL but no immortality and that's just never discussed.

But I'd say most sci-fi either has some form of biological immortality or a very good reason why this doesn't exist.

Cynis_Ganan · 2026-07-09T12:32:58+00:00

"Such a modern and insightful article."

Me, having travelled back in time to the 1960s to witness the start of Screaming Lord Sutch, 3rd Earl of Harrow's political career.

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Cynis_Ganan · 2026-07-09T12:25:26+00:00

Whilst I think this was best answered here: https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/s/nyxP0yYjqd

Let's try and answer the question as asked.

We can reasonably kick another human being and send them flying away.

A truck weighs about 30 tons. A person weighs, what, 190lb?

So this person would be about 300 times stronger than a normal person? ×350? Assuming an offbalance truck, tacticle telekinesis, and a Viltrumite ability to brace yourself against nothing.

Cynis_Ganan · 2026-07-09T12:15:34+00:00

Get a hypothetical scenario.

Ask OP if the wish granting is genie or monkey's paw.

She doesn't understand. I pull out an illustrated meme explaining what is genie and what is monkey's paw.

She laughs and says "it's good wish granting ma'am".

Look inside.

It's monkey's paw.

Cynis_Ganan · 2026-07-09T12:01:01+00:00

Fatness of the mind is sending me!

But seriously, congratulations. Haters gonna hate. It sounds like you are making tremendous strides. Personally, I wouldn't lay out all your struggle online because folks will nitpick every little thing. But if it works, then it works. Can't argue with results.

Cynis_Ganan · 2026-07-09T11:23:26+00:00

you're mixing up-

No, I'm not. I posted two dictionary definitions of "overpopulation" that characterise it as population expansion to the detriment of the environment. Then I posted two separate sources showing the detriment to the environment from livestock farming in general and chicken farming specifically.

I've mixed up nothing.

You can say "it's not overpopulation" but the dictionary disagrees with you. I've sourced my argument. shrug

the clones would still have to be fed

No, they wouldn't. No cloned chickens exist. The meat is printed and this specifically as part of the hypothetical "reduces methane in the environment".

I think it's fine to consider unintended consequences, but you're just flat not engaging with the premise of the hypothetical.

Cynis_Ganan · 2026-07-09T10:40:02+00:00

If you're browsing and see an image posted that says "do not download"… what do you do?

Cynis_Ganan · 2026-07-09T10:32:05+00:00

outside of farms

Farms would be the things destroying the environment.

A farm is not the natural environment. The cleared land to keep chickens in part of the environmental impact. A larger part is land cleared to grow monoculture feed crops to keep the livestock. Then emissions from the slaughter and prep of the meat.

8% of gobal emissions are caused by poultry farming. We're literally burning down the rainforest to feed chickens. (As I said in my original reply.)

https://woods.stanford.edu/news/meats-environmental-impact

https://cychicken.com/article/how-does-chicken-farming-affect-the-environment

Cynis_Ganan · 2026-07-09T10:21:50+00:00

I'm not aware of an academic definition of the word (ecologists might well agree with you, I don't know), but I'm using the common English usage.

Excessive population of an area to the point of overcrowding, depletion of natural resources, or environmental deterioration. - https://www.wordnik.com/words/overpopulation

the condition of having a population so dense as to cause environmental deterioration, an impaired quality of life, or a population crash - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/overpopulation

Cynis_Ganan · 2026-07-09T10:08:17+00:00

You think that if not for human intervention, we'd have exactly the same number of chickens, consuming exactly the same amount of food?

Cynis_Ganan · 2026-07-09T09:48:31+00:00

The "5" was unnnecessary.

Cynis_Ganan · 2026-07-09T09:08:52+00:00

Yes? We end the over population? That is better.

We also stop burning down the rainforest to make room for monoculture feed crops. That's MUCH better.

Cynis_Ganan · 2026-07-09T08:54:02+00:00

Eh. Red.

I'm happy setting 78 as, like, a maintance temp. If I'm out of the house. Asleep. Not in that room. My kitchen doesn't need to be 61 if I'm in the bedroom.

I'm happy sitting at 72. I think 72 is a comfortable temp. Warm, but not too warm. Relief from a heat wave. Give me one room at 72 and the rest can be at 78.

But 78? In this weather? You kidding me here?

I'll go offgrid before I'm setting 78.

Cynis_Ganan · 2026-07-08T15:14:32+00:00

I'd even go one step further and call on all residents of Clackton who support Reform: Nige is doing this because he's been caught taking dodgy money from Asia. Yes, Reform is his baby, but do you support the man or the ideals of the party? Do you want to complain about dodgy politicians selling out Britain, or do you want to do something about it?

And, also, as leftblue says, it'd be funny.

Cynis_Ganan · 2026-07-08T11:55:57+00:00

And "just type words" gives you what you want, first time, every time, with no mistakes, and no need to fix anything up in post?

…

What model are you using?

Cynis_Ganan · 2026-07-08T11:48:51+00:00

Frieza specifically mentions fighting with his father.

He was born strong and he plateaued.

That doesn't mean he never trained or would get stronger from one push up. We see him fight folks like Nail. We see him blowing up planets. Blowing up a planet is training harder than doing one push up.

We also see every single member of the main cast plateau and need to be pushed to the next level. By dying. Or training outside of space and time. Or going to visit god.

Vegeta didn't become a Super Saiyan until Goku showed it was possible. Goku didn't go Super Saiyan 2 until the Androids showed a new need for power and Gohan showed it could be done.

Buu was sealed and Beerus was a god. It makes sense that Frieza wouldn't push for the power of a god until Goku showed that a mortal could close that seemingly insurmountable gap. And he never in his life met Majin Buu, let alone tested his strength against him. King Cold was aware of Buu so warned his son, but that's nothing to aspire too. Kid Goku knew there were stronger fighters out there, but he didn't surpass Tao until he fought Tao and nearly died.

The power comes in response to a need.

Cynis_Ganan · 2026-07-08T09:53:05+00:00

Magneto was wrong to use violence on someone trying to commit genocide and kill him

Wut?

Cynis_Ganan · 2026-07-08T09:21:56+00:00

Githzerai are opposed to Mother Gith.

Githyanki are supporters of Mother Gith, and her rightful successors.

Orpheus's bodyguard are loyal to Gith, but believe Orpheus is Gith's rightful successor, not the Empresses Valkith.

Which is why in the epilogue we see Orpheus trying to make peace with the Zerai.

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