Money is a motive like any motive. If I was a mom and my kid agreed to it, that’s up to them.

You know the one.

I adapted something like that when making my comics (I mean there’s a reason they call it Comic Sans) and it has stuck.

Did you learn how you got that?

As a parent or as a kid?

Always?

That is situational. Preferably people don’t lie. However, nuance can make it inevitable.

I once watched an anime called Usagi Drop. In it, the oldest member in an enormous family, who was in his eighties, ends up, ahem, “going around”, and he dies having fathered a girl, who, in the big picture of the family’s family tree, is the great aunt of several of the characters who are well into adulthood. Japan is a nation that considers such matters highly controversial and stigmatized, and this was a major plot point in the show. The young adult characters decide it’s best to “adopt” her and not reveal her origins as a form of protection. Would totally recommend the anime nevertheless.

Can you imagine if the Allies were fighting the Axis powers, and while making the ghost army, the Allies were like “yeah, those tanks are inflatables, it’s Normandy we’ll be going after”?

If I was a mother to a poly teen, I’d welcome them as if it were any kind of relationship. People who prefer a type of relationship typically do so because something in it is beneficial (obviously). Poly relationships are no different from LGBT ones where there is a driving force towards it, and there’s nothing “wrong” with it. The rules of love are what the participants make of it and agree on (look up relationship anarchy).

Did they use tokens and prize tickets too?

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I like that game too.

I’ve heard of the rabbit plague but never would’ve made that connection.

Always found it akin to the perfect example of Murphy’s Law that humans are the one invasive species that doesn’t thrive well there.

This would probably be the gist of my answer as well, both as an observer as well as someone in a dispute.

I’ve watched my best friends fight battles one could say are incredibly unnecessary, from the guy best friend having his family torn apart by the CPS based on false accusations before they went after his mom to harass her since they couldn’t successfully arrest her like they could with his dad on a false basis, to his GF (my other best friend) constantly having friends pulled away from her, to what me and my BF have gone through often (it should be noted what we consider the actual issue and what their active ingredients are has differed).

Ironically I generally don’t have the negative relation with officials that these other experiences would imply I would have. I’m more accurately described as someone the people always seem to be after, not the officials in a society, albeit it might be said semantics don’t do that justice until it has been paraphrased a few times. Another way it’s been explained is that I incur “guerilla dissatisfaction” and that even seeming technicalities have some element of that, even when I’m being productive in its face, with their “three weapons” being denial, justification, and pretending to not understand.

On the authoritarian side of things, it has only been recently (as in an epiphany that dropped out of nowhere some weeks ago) realized that an enormous amount of what could be called covert targeted bias against some of us, especially when the individuals who the bias is in favor of have the bias in favor of them as a form of some sort of social prestige, has been or is boiled down to secretly wanting to “humble” the person the bias is against.

Example:

A superior might say out loud “you acted in self defense against a killer, but it was still assault, so I’m going to give you a bigger sentence than the person who killed your dog.”

In their minds: “maybe this is the perfect tool to humble them, they never seemed humble to me and an extraordinary large sentence might serve as a good character builder, not actually given to punish them.”

And people wonder why sociopathy exists.

You say that as if dictators, by their nature, aren’t going to sneak up on us. The question, sadly, should be what we would do once one reveals themselves, and the answer to that is in a battle of wit VS law.

Never unless it’s relevant to the setting.

I hesitate to say yes or no because ghosting comes in many levels. There are many people I prioritize last if at all, and there are some people that some would say I definitely have good reasons to ghost absolutely, but the potential for circumstantial nuance (especially in my life) would make this practically difficult to foresee myself doing. The closest I come to a perfect example of a ghosted individual is my best friend’s birth mother who wants to steer his life away from mine and my other best friend’s since she (the birth mother) is culturally discriminatory.

“Oh rabbits” sounds like something Wallace and Gromit would say.

“I’d challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you’re unarmed.”

~ William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“You want my children? Take them! I have the instrument to make more.”

~ Caterina Sforza when blackmailed by kidnappers using her children as leverage (main source: Niccolo Machiavelli)

“We fulfill the demands of nature in a much better way than do you Roman women; for we consort openly with the best men, whereas you let yourselves be debauched in secret by the vilest.”

~ Earliest recorded words of a Scot, third century AD (never change, Scotland).

Same.

Your emotions, on their own, are your own and natural to you. If anything should be judged, it’s how someone goes about their life.