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> Korea Book list: Romani ethnography, skimming, a good source is books by them themselves. Japan, the BBC did an audio or video series on Japan I'll try to find. Also watch "Japanology", which is probably an NHK production.

> If the goal is complete annihilation, then it would depend. What does the villain get from it if he does it, and what does someone else doing it deprive him of? Loss of agency - they suffer an injury to their self-regard if someone else does it first.

Compare with badly written Japanese web novels. 1 guy and a crowd of women is harem, if he has romantic entanglements with one of them or all of them.

> Evil Protagonist They're not evil, they're heroes of their own personal narrative. So the question is whether or not "saving the world" is in line with their own personal hopes and dreams. Or whims. Or grudges. Including personal goals like not burning to death.

Eh. Weak plot or weak characters can sink a story.

Clean up the line work of the painting. Especially the drapery. Don't have a tangent between two objects, like the hair and text. Fun piece, keep at it, just workshop it more.

> When you read, always use abstraction, same with writing. My smooth brain is too concrete and specific to understand what you mean by this.

Pretty sure a seagull wrote this.

> ...where the girls in the harem either tolerate eachother or actually dislike eachother." Sounds more realistic then Japanese webnovels where five shallowly written women instantly glom onto a boring protagonist.

Former.

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/47340/master-this-poor-disciple-died-again-today/chapter/765250/1-the-end Poor bastard is the weakest cultivator around. He'll tell you as much.

> make sure they have different personalities and appearances. Moreover motivations. I've read vast quantities of mediocre Japanese webnovels with lazily-written harem members.

> If tax is a transfer of wealth without personal consent, then there's nothing weird about seeing it as theft. It's intensely weird because you're deliberately conflating lawful and unlawful taking. And using emotional language to make an emotional argument. As part of a "burn it down"...

> To go back to OP's initial question: Tax is theft, because it's unilateral without giving you any agency on how the money is used, Firstly, you're mashing together representational democracies that respect human rights with basically nasty autocracies. Secondly, the tax = theft meme only...

> Taxes are an obligation if you want to exist within the borders of someones domain. More it's a social contract with your neighbors that if you have money you're not going to use the publicly funded water and sewers without contributing to that public fund. > The obvious alternative to...

We're fine as long as the rich don't buy out the newspapers, tv news stations, and social media companies in order to promulgate hate, malicious nonsense, and tax avoidance.

Libertarians will tell you tax is theft. Based on a scifi book by Ayn Rand. Libertarians also like having water treatment plants, public schools, and emergency rooms around, but will not point at a working model of society without taxes but with water treatment plants, public schools, and...

Sometime the real torturers are the friends we made along the way.

Modern readers are sophisticated enough you can start en media res with an action scene or a non physical conflict/hurdle, and trickle enough context to them, and they'll be fine. Also, they've waded through piles of mediocre openings to mediocre stories to get to your story. They don't need a...