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The Old Hack
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They already do that. In Gamergate, for example, the leaders of the mob told the followers, "We are the PCs, they are the NPCs. Anything we do to them is fair game."
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Go pick any of a large number of Black people in the US and call them the N-word. Use a statistically significant amount, say, a thousand or so. Then note down how many of them weren't offended and you'll have a decent starting idea of the percentage involved. If you want to be sure, pick Black people at the bottom of the social pyramid, they should not be hard to find. In fact, just go into the middle of the Chicago slums and shout the N-word as loudly as you can about a half dozen times. The reaction should tell you everything you need to know. Only warn me before doing it, I want to stand back a bit first.
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It does have something new to it. In several cases it is revolutionary, from large numbers at the bottom of the pyramid demanding the change of the top, rather than conservative, imposing the silencing of the bottom. Demanding the cessation of use of the N-word, for example. The nearest case of this I can think of is that Byzantine Emperor who changed the state language of Byzantium from Latin to Greek because Greek was the language of the common citizen and Latin only used by the privileged few, though that came from the top, too.
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This has been true as long as government has existed. And it is very hard to completely erase a concept. There are still records of the Pharaoh Hachepsut, for example. Still, certain rulers made really good tries, like those Chinese Emperors that decided to reset history by burning all existing records to assure a new Year Zero starting with them. It didn't really work, no-one believed it, but they did destroy numberless invaluable and important texts and works of literature.
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The article didn't specify, merely saying that he was picked up shortly afterwards. I figured they noticed the car but it is also possible they got a tip. Still, you're right, the former is more probable.
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Probably badly. He did get caught by the police shortly afterwards, so maybe the neighbour got on the phone to them very quickly after he left.
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Adventurer groups can do astoundingly stupid things at times. There was a legendary tale in my community about how a large party of adventurers fought a massively powerful dragon in its lair, lost half their number and then finally managed to paralyse it. Then they started to argue with each other about the loot and did so for so long that the dragon had time to recover from the paralysis. And when it did, it killed the rest of them.
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Good points all. Mind you, from what I read I think the poor idiot was simply conscience-stricken and wanted to put the children somewhere as close to their home as possible without actually ringing the doorbell to the place itself. That last might have seemed understandably awkward to him. "Uh, ma'am? Sorry for kidnapping your children, it was an accident, I just wanted your car."
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To be fair this is not just in Denmark. A lot of criminals have lines they don't like to cross. Some of which, truth be told, are there to protect themselves. If the guy had been thinking instead of panicking, he might have considered the calculus of being wanted for stealing a car versus being wanted for kidnapping two children. The latter scenario means huge manhunt with police everywhere looking for you. Not a good thing if all you want is to unload a hot car.
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We had a variation of this happen in Denmark. A mother decided to visit a store and left her two kids, four and five years old, peacefully snoozing beneath a blanket on the back seat. While she was gone a car thief stole the car, not noticing the children. When he did spot them he decided this was too much -- he was a car thief, not a kidnapper. He asked the children where they lived and drove them home where he dropped them off with a neighbour who happened to be home at the time. Sadly for him the police was already in the area and he got arrested when he tried to leave in the stolen car.
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He also did stuff like kidnap a governor from his home to talk him into pardoning an innocent man about to be executed. The early Superman didn't as much respect the law as he paid vague attention to some rough guidelines.
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At least he is in our day and time. Back in 1938 when he first appeared he had a rather different attitude.
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Which is indeed what he does in the MCU continuity.
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Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)
The Old Hack replied to ProfessorTomoe's topic in Off Topic Discussion
I thought your mummifying technicians had that one down pat. They could completely remove a person's innards and none of them would even get scratched. -
While I agree with this, it is worth remembering that many heroes only have secret identities due to it being expected by convention or tradition. It is readily possible to write heroes that do not need one. Of the heroes who do have one, the best of them are those where the secret identity fills a genuine need for the hero. For example, in some of the better written Superman stories it is arguable that it is Clark who is the true self and Superman merely a coloured mountebank meant to distract from the man underneath. Batman, on the other hand, needs Bruce like you need wheels on a bathtub. It is perhaps his greatest weakness. : /
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I cannot really agree. Painful as it often is, I prefer truth to illusion. And Quixotic though it may be, I've spent a lot of my life looking for the right sort of mirrors.
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In Copenhagen we have massive amounts of bicyclists. Many streets have bicycle paths and practically all the main streets have them. And a lot of the cyclists act as if the laws don't apply to them, cutting across anyone in their way to save maybe two or three seconds of travel time. I have ridden a bicycle all my life and I am very much aware of the laws. To be exact, Newton's Laws. And of the fact that I am mounted on a fragile metal framework only kept upright by momentum and my sense of balance. The average car outmasses me by a factor of at least a dozen and the driver is securely fastened to a seat inside a metal box that is specifically designed to protect them in the case of impact. I can do basic math and thus it has not escaped my notice that if I collide with that average car, it is not the driver of the car that will end up second best.
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I once saw this hilarious mini-comic created by stills taken from the Animated Batman and Superman cartoons. It shows a shadowy figure looking at superhero pictures, it then proclaims "Of COURSE! It is so obvious!" and the last image shows a guy confronting Clark and telling him, "Your secret is out, Clark Kent! You are BATMAN!"
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Dear forumgoers, I apologise but I am not at my best currently. For that reason I will likely be less active. I will continue to monitor the forums and respond to requests from posters, however. I will hopefully recover before too long. (I have been aware of this problem for some days but it was driven home to me when I was looking at Youtube videos and my brain insisted that one was titled "How will undecided Senators evaluate alligators?" I made the operative decision that I need to withdraw a bit and I will leave the alligator problem in Pharaoh's capable hands.) Thank you all. ~tOH.
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http://egscomics.com/egsnp/assorted-18a-008
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The Old Hack replied to ProfessorTomoe's topic in Off Topic Discussion
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Now that's just not true. Ships managed their foresails with booms long before that.
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http://egscomics.com/comic/tlod-015
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http://egscomics.com/comic/tlod-014
