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Currently trying to motivate myself and rally my confidence. Deleted the draft of ch 3 of my wn for the fourth time. I'm in pain.

Because it's messy. It's the same reason authors gloss over or entirely skip "civilized" men and women having to kill another person, let alone a monster (see Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash for a series that does explore this angle to heartbreaking effect), it requires a certain level of emotional...

This is something that I'll agree with whole-heartedly, it hurts to think that something as simple as the lack of a genetic connection can make a parent treat a child with less care, but there's enough instances of families disowning children for the "crime" of race or even class mixing, so I'm...

Noted this already, and I did bring up the demographic transition model just a few posts above, the idea of a population explosion being anything but a miniscule factor in climate change as opposed to developed countries running the world into the ground is indeed naiive. I backslid a bit into...

Sorry, but no. That just ignores the Demographic Transition Model. There's so many children in Africa and other developing parts of the world because infant mortality is very very high and access to quality of life improvements and education is very very low. African countries that have caught...

Greed. Humanity's issues have more to do with the weight of consumption/artificial roadblocks to climate solutions available with current tech (a family in Liberia produces far less emissions than one in the US, after all), and at this point I'm more concerned about the idea of choosing to make...

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Meh. There's a difference between ending a life, refusing to take care of a life that already exists, and bringing a new life into the world. I will agree that the argument from an ecological standpoint is neither the strongest nor the most rational (see my reply to Bob above), I just don't see...

Agreed on all accounts, and that's what makes the conversation so frustrating. The philosophical/political side of the equation shouldn't be ignored, and any form of government control can easily present a slippery slope towards actual genocide. I guess the best solution would be to find ways...

True, very true. On principle one's freedoms should not be limited, China's One Child Policy was absolutely draconian, for example. The only issue with that is when one's freedoms spell greater harm for others than the happiness it would bring to the individual. We only have one planet, and...

Oh most certainly. No matter what side of the fence you're on if you abandon a cinnabon or make their formative years hell, you deserve a visit from the Saw guy. This... just seems super irrational to me, the cost of rolling a gacha/picking up another author's work rather than making your own...

I used to think so. Hell, I still do to some extent, but I'm proud to say that I no longer look at people who want to pass on their genes with disdain. I used to panic about the inevitable doom humanity is bringing against itself with the climate crisis and its inability to meet the physical...

As Sailus said, if you're trying to go for the most sanitary definition without taking motives (manipulation, love, inspiration, diplomacy, etc) into account, you can focus on things that people do to enhance the clarity of their message, here's a few: Code switching: changing one's...

Yup. This is a problem in modern webnovels and by extension anime in general, the narrative stakes/potential for deep worldbuilding suffer at the hands of authors who want their inserts to be the most powerful awesome cool fortunate people that can steamroll their problems. Overlord and a few...

Yup yup, you have to factor in for setting differences, which is what makes the worldbuilding all the more intreasting. Also, yes, I want a catgirl president!