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Ere choo go.

Quote from: Sirus on February 21, 2014, 03:41:19 pm

That would be an awesome premise for a novel. FTL dragons and the daring spacemen who ride them.

Also album cover. Bonus points for claiming it's something you dug up from the Eighties and everyone believes you.

Yeaaahh... while explicit nudity is fairly rare in (non-pornographic, anyway -- remember the multi-billion dollar porn market in the states is pretty bloody huge) American media, it's still definitely sex obsessed. Just in a victorian ankles-everywhere sort of sense.

And that's just the TV/movie stuff. Something like half the grocery-store magazines has sex or sex appeal tips of some sort or another plastered across their cover (and this isn't particularly gender biased). Whoever's on the other half is probably showing more skin than cloth. You won't see unclothed female nipples or genitalia of either gender, no, but basically everything else is both fair game and likely to be on display.

Just... yeah. States are definitely at least as focused on sex as it is on violence. Just somewhat less blatantly, I suppose.

There's no justice in violence, LS. Justice requires reparation. Repayment, some form of correction or renumeration for a wrong. A payment towards restoring a net balance of good. Violence is at best unconnected to that, and all too often precludes it entirely. And a payment of flesh is only payment if it's being fed to someone, generally. It's definitely much quicker than justice ever is, though.

And I'd say we're very much not largely creatures of violence, though we do have a small core of it, just like any other animal. It's something we often go to great lengths to avoid -- nearly everything does, if for no other reason than violence almost always takes more energy or resources than other options. It's just something we readily turn to when desperate. Remove desperation and you remove most (if not all) violence. It's not a very complicated thing. Feed and shelter a person, take from them fear and give them avenues for happiness and neighbors who are in the same situation, and the one that will turn to violence is incredibly rare. It takes no conditioning to minimize violence. Just good conditions.

From Valdis Story, heh. Fires a fairly sizable fireball at stuff, iirc. Not the most useful of assist critters, but... cannon panda is canon. Is pretty great.

I think there's a lot of variation in attitudes between school systems, and local politics also play a very large part in just how much crap schools are able to get away with.  It seems to me like the more rural the school is, the more likely it is to be fucked up.  But I wouldn't quite call my experiences a normal thing to be happening at your average school.

It's... definitely regional, yes. I've heard some goddamn horror stories coming from urban areas, too, though. There's at least one (fairly large) city in Florida I will now no longer even pass through, ha. Though I actually don't quite remember which one it is at the moment... either a J or a G, one of the larger-ish ones. Don't think it was gainesville, though. Maybe Jacksonville.

Same time, well, family's involved in education. Madre was special ed for a number of years, been doing adult ed for a while now. Small town, but she's networked pretty well outside of it at points over the years. Others in other places... one was a principle for a while. Carpooled with a dude who was involved with... whatever the word is, safe housing for "troubled" kids sorta' thing. They've got friends, I've been around it and interested to a cursory degree for... a long time. Got a little more interested for a bit (years back, now) during one of the pushes for more private schools, picked up a bit more understanding around then (though that's a bit rusty at this point). S'just. There's a reason many/most schools have a school counselor, and there's almost always a lot more going on in the kind of background of things than most people are actually aware of. Absolute numbers and percentage of population wise, nasty shit (of varying sorts) going on is pretty small, but it's also pretty damn pervasive.

... "replace easily" isn't exactly the words I'd use for items that cost 900 and 500 more gold, respectively.

Sleep? Bah. Sounds to me like you need to be writing up some interdimensional colonization erotica.

Aaannnnnddd now my backbrain is half trying to figure out how that'd work. Forget, like, people colonists, I think that would deserve something like multiplanar sentient planets. Mars is the proverbial desk. Poor Mars.

"Volcanic Activity 2: It Came From the Fifth Dimension."