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cap. It's like saying mercenary work is too expensive and in the late medieval ages germany was crawling with them.
If the quest is a problem, i.e bandits or whatever then there are people invested into solving it, be it a lord or official or captain who gives you a spear, tax break for service, or directly levying for adventures or whatever.
Though if the supply of adventurers to go around is too high, then yeah, they'll get nickel and dimed basically turning adventuring into a wealthy mans hobby.

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It's virtue ethics. Basically the question "What kind of person/society should I/we be?", or "What kind of person/society does this make me/us?"
Consider the French Revolution. They beheaded the monarchy (based), then they used the definition of bad person to start to execute everyone and circled back to being a tyranny.
"Terror is nothing but prompt, severe, inflexible justice; it is therefore an emanation of virtue." (moral language about virtue can become coercive when a group claims authority to define virtue)
In fantasy settings this often isn't really a problem because the villains are either comically evil, or more like personifications and almost always exclusively exceptional in their occurrence (individualized), instead of being products of systemic misaligned incentives and/or being part of a system that enables/protects misdeeds.

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To add on that Empoleon itself also doesn't really look androgynous and is rather masculine coded with the huge hands and having something that evokes the look of a cravat, which are usually associated with masculine formal attire, see men’s aristocratic and military dresses from 17th century onward.
The take only really fits for Greninja and then forward only gen 7 and gen 9 are unambiguously feminine coded

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I haven't seen it either, I was extrapolating from random stuff I picked up about the anime lol

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It's actually quite an interesting question. If their way of life is inherently harmful to ours, yet they are born or created that way, meaning they have no real choice and were dropped into a ecology they did not design, then coexistence in any meaningful sense may be impossible. If that is the case, is it sufficient justification to expel them, or even to wipe them out entirely?

Basically, if demons are not morally guilty, yet remain fundamentally incompatible with human survival, what can be done, and what should be done?

This raises the justification problem: if harm is unavoidable and asymmetric, does self-defense scale all the way up to eradication? Philosophically, this echoes arguments used to justify the quarantine of incurable carriers, the extermination of invasive species, or preemptive war framed as survival, et cetera.

If coexistence is impossible and one side must vanish (be it containment or eradication), prioritizing one's own species can begin to feel almost tautological. Survival asserts itself. Truly dog eat dog.

From a consequentialist lens, this conclusion may seem acceptable. From a deontological perspective it becomes questionable, as wiping out an entire group feels categorically wrong regardless of the outcome. Virtue ethics meanwhile, is concerned with what such actions ultimately turn us into (what habit, mind and character does it cultivate for example).

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My peen says "GHB is cheap"

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low-effort r*ddit sloptier platitudinal advice stripped of its meaning
Let's be honest this echoing of overselling simple improvements as complete solutions is less about helping the other but more about being performative
Let them eat cake levels of divorced from reality.

Not saying that you posted in bad faith. It does help in cases of mild depression. But anything more severe than that and this advice boils down to >no money? >try being not poor, it really helps!

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Zased. Still miss my GF who cheated on me. Zamn

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The bureaucracy of spite. Rules not for fairness, but to passively express disapproval or control. It's almost stereotypical of german culture, especially in early online places like forums and other sites. You don't confront or discuss, you silently put up rules and regulation. I think it was common enough that most had the joy of experiencing or observing some form of it.


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