@Aldo6 You contradict your own definition of strength, if strength is potential for success in will a living person is stronger than a dead one.
@Aldo6 The question begs the context. In the rain a house with walls will keep someone alive, which is giving them strength, on the other hand a house on fire would make a field a much more attractive, stronger, option.
@Aldo6 If struggle is strength and strength makes safety irrelevant, one is neither safe nor unsafe, that is even more reductionist, it makes the eradicates the concept of safety, or pretends to, because if people really operated this way they would exercise every intrusive thought regardless of safety like jamming their hand into a table saw. Some people do this, and they are called insane, it is viewed as a malfunction if no reason can be atteibuted to the act other than impulse. You seek to erode the concept of safety, you argue against it's utility, this is senseless. Everything has utility. Empty space even has utility. If someone can't see this it doesn't nullify the utility, it only indicates their ignorance.
@Aldo6 Their strength didn't make the safety irrelevant, it became their safety. In the context of the fish, being in water that's not too hot and not too cold equals safety, having food that it has access to and is suitable for it equals safety, etc.
@Aldo6 You ignored my detail completely about degrees of safety, do you not agree that if a fishes degree of safety reaches zero it is therefore incapable of sustaining life, and is by definition dead, after which point it's safety becomes an irrelevant question as there is no longer a fish to be safe or unsafe at all.
@Aldo6 okay so it's a willing cost, and by the way how can someone be safe if they can't grow and how can someone grow if they're not safe? A fish in the ocean is not safe, but if it grows to adulthood it must have had "enough" safety, and so it must have had some degree of safety to have some degree of growth, if its degree of safety reaches zero that means it is in another fish's stomach.
@Aldo6 notice that I said you didn't define the cost, what is the cost of this safety, is it a willing cost, or is it cost extracted against one's will? What is the cost for this growth? The answer to both may be pain, or even worse, betrayal of allies. IF those may be the cost would either be worth it?
@Aldo6 Both suck, Akira is hell, Pleasantville is hell, walk the middle path or you'll fall off the edge and despite what the sages say either side off the cliff leads to the bottom.
@Aldo6 Infinate growth = Akira
Infinate safety = Pleasantville
@Aldo6 these are monkeys paw questions. Each at what cost, you don't define the cost, the question is a trap.
@vitalis I wish someone would make an actually ergonomic gunblade. Think one of those induan punch daggers with a 12 inch split blade wide and thick enough not to snap and correctly heat treated, with an 8 or 4 inch barrel at the base with a trigger somewhere smart so it can be used as a knife without accidental discharge, and have the cylinder offset with a counterweight for proper balance.
YO SHADING IS BULLSHIT ANY KIND OF LIGHT DARK VALUES CAN BE EXTRAPOLATED TO MAKE SENSE OUT OF THEM, OH, THERE'S LIGHT ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE FACE BUT THE NOSES SHADOW IS FACING RIGHT????? IT'S NOT THE NOSES SHADOW IDIOT, THERE IS A NOSE SHADOW SHAPED CUTOUT BETWEEN THE SUBJECT AND THE LIGHT SOURCE YOU IDIOT, OBVIOUSLY, AND IT'S CREATING AN *ILLUSION*, 99% OF YOU ART "CRITICS" ARE SOOOOO FUCKING DUMB!!!!!!!!!!/VENT
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A movie about a dying doomed man who sacrifices himself to help others, very good movie despite its flaws
Ok yall I'm dyin, I'm getting grey hairs now at a rate that indicate my telomeres have entered the dying phase, so, none of you made yourself my wives, all in all I'd say this was a shit playthrough on life, yea I got layed a lot compared to some of you sad virgins but I didn't get my soul mate, and that's what I want...maybe there's still time but time goes faster the more you age due to a known perceptual effect that cannot be escaped because it is mathmatical and has to do with context, so if you are 5 years old, 5 more years is very long, very formative, because it's twice your lifes length, but the longer you go, the more memory you accumulate, and you recontextualize time whether you want to or not. So although old fag hags tell me I'm "young" those dumb bitches are just jealous that the next 30 years for them is going to feel like five while the next 30 years for me is going to feel like 10 or 15... but it's still only going to feel like 10 or 15 which pisses me off and so I don't see what they're so jealous about, I'm not jealous of your young ass, you get to have the years you get to have, good for you, I'm not jealous about it I'm not going to fucking shame you when you come to me with your bitchy problems and tell you how you're "young you're not old you're young" when you come to me and you tell me about your existential fucking crises I'm not going to invalidate your ass/vent vent vent
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