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If you leave it outside, I believe it scatters randomly, like when you abandon a fortress, but it never vanishes or becomes owned by anybody else or leaves the boundaries of the settlement.

Unless you store it in a store, or perhaps a house. I remember storing crap in people's hovels was possible in 40d but I'm not sure now.

Night Creature lairs make the best base of operations, because I know for sure stuff won't disappear from them.

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Well, that is an explanation of sorts, thanks. I can understand the concept of the sanctity of human life, but I don't think a clump of cells qualifies. A clump of cells is potential life, certainly. I'm still not sure about the philosophical concept of 'potential life' and how denying it's potential is a sort of evil. It seems like you could very well be saving that soul from the fires of hell by halting it's formation.

I suppose the other ideas and probably that idea as well, are based on theological thought not directly derived from the Bible, but rather something sort of generated and thought of as being compatible with with it. Church or denominational doctrine. In this case, the Catholic outlook of scrutinizing and finding technicalities for everything. I had no idea the 'all miscarriages go to hell' concept was from Dante. I figured Dante's Inferno was 'just a book' and the idea itself was another derived Catholic technicality.
Come to think of it, the philosophical outlook of human life being sacred seems to manifest itself most in Catholicism. They seem to have the most stringent rules against reproduction juices and whatnot.

So I imagine there are Christian outlooks that don't rule out abortion, well, besides Unitarians? What would their rationale be for that? Just that the Bible doesn't explicitly exclude it, we must be free to do it?

I'm not sure how it is hard to understand the prospective at least. I mean, the idea is that these things have souls, and thus killing them is wrong. You don't need a bible to tell you killing things with souls is wrong and you don't even need a bible to know that these things have souls. You just need belief. I don't understand the idea that that is hard to understand.

Although it still hinges on if there is a soul generated at the moment of conception or not. Is this about original sin? If an unborn embryo dies before being baptized it goes to hell right? So if an zygote has a soul and there is a miscarriage or abortion it goes to hell before it can be born and, then I can see that being something they'd want to avoid, although it happens naturally.

We need to know what happens with zombie mussel shells dipped in forgotten beast extract.

I dunno, but I just realized how hungry I am.

Arizona bill requires that teachers follow national broadcasting standards in public and personal life.

Oh wow. What the fuck were they thinking?

At least it will never actually happen and it's unenforceable on constitutional grounds. Still, it's a travesty that these jackasses even thought it was a good idea.

You can bring the magma a little closer to the surface by setting the world gen parameters for only 1 or 2 cavern levels. Might want to change the other parameters dealing with the space in between layers and the surface if you do that, though.

Perhaps it'd be safer to dig a room above the magma and then collapse a floor on it to breach it, rather then ordering it channeled?

I've always carved a fortification into the side of the magma into a series of tubes under my planned magma foundry. I just put stairs going up right next to where I breach the lava to to provide a quick escape for the engraver scraping out the fortification. I don't know if the engraver would survive in the new version yet.

Perhaps you have to have "proof" that he's a fraud? Reading the books in necromancer towers and perhaps just asking around in town or something?