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With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Twelve)

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Finagle007 said:
It's the principle of the thing. The powers that be went to all the effort of creating life, and here these vampires are, walking dead things in mockery of life. Like Flim and Flam's crap cider compared to Sweet Apple Acres cider, for MLP fans. Or a Mickey D's *burger* compared to a REAL burger. etc.
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Um, I hate to tell you this, but she's clearly sapient, so...she is alive.
 
Hopefully, Murphy's Law will not kick in and make OL's attempts to negotiate with Nabu be in vain.
 
Finagle007 said:
Like Flim and Flam's crap cider compared to Sweet Apple Acres cider, for MLP fans.
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Flim and Flam's apple juice was fine until they intentionally turned off their quality control. They just couldn't keep up with nine Ponies. Which just goes to show that Applejack is a terrible businessmare.
hance1986 said:
should just be ' draw them to our teachers' attention. ' draw them to our teachers' attention to them ' is redundant.
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Thank you, corrected.
Avernus said:
Typos: "I" "Briggs' "
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Thank you, corrected.
 
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Mr Zoat said:
My job was to identify those areas and draw them to our teachers'-" I step aside as a woman walking her dogs comes down the pavement in the opposite direction to us. "-attention to them.
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Edit on my earlier edit now.

the part in red I highlighted needs to be removed completely so the sentence goes ' and draw our teachers' attention to them '. Then it's fine.
 
Finagle007 said:
Sapience =/= life.
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Then what does? Is it having an agreed-upon rate of telomere degeneration, or metabolizing oxygen, or lacking a specific allergy? It must be something spectacularly specific, or else you're basically discarding whole swathes of possible sophonts from being considered "people."

After all, you could just as easily apply most of the conditions of vampirism to, say, an alien race made of energy who leech sustenance from existing structures of organic molecules and are dispersed by excessive exposure to UV - do they deserve destruction for not being enough like humans?

My issue here isn't just you arguing that vampires are icky - it's the way you seem to treat it as an inherent property of them. How is that any different than, I don't know, some mystic asshole claiming that Paul's use of avarice means he's inherently corrupt and evil, or a shuttered Luddite shrieking for the destruction of Red Tornado and his siblings because "robots always turn on mankind"?
 
Dr. Bob Doom said:
I see someone installed the Vampirism Mod.
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Is DC-vampirism a viral contagion like in Marvel?

Perhaps OL or Kid Flash could make an antidote or vaccine, inoculating people against being turned into vampires or making them unpalatable like the anti-wraith drug in "Stargate: Atlantis".

Or maybe they could dabble with nanite-infused serums like in "Justice League: Gods and Monsters" that turned Kirk Langstrom into a pseudo-vampire similar to Marvel's Morbius the Living Vampire.

OL: "Are you going to drain me of my blood?"
Vampire: :sour: "Ewww, no! Your blood smells awful!"
OL: "How dare you! My blood is just as good as anyone else's! You're being racist!"
Vampire: o_O "It's not racist to avoid eating people with bad tasting blood!!!"
 
personally I always thought life itself was more an expression of always trying to reach past previous limitation.
 
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Finagle007 said:
It's the principle of the thing. The powers that be went to all the effort of creating life, and here these vampires are, walking dead things in mockery of life. Like Flim and Flam's crap cider compared to Sweet Apple Acres cider, for MLP fans. Or a Mickey D's *burger* compared to a REAL burger. etc.
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You might have a point if she had a choice in the matter. She didn't. As it stands, you're displaying rather alarming vitalist tendencies here. Just because someone doesn't have a pulse doesn't make them any less human.
Finagle007 said:
With regards to AI, there's a big difference between synthetic life and undeath.
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Not really. The biggest difference you could point to is that, in this specific instance, a Vampire needs to consume sustenance to live; which would make them closer to alive than a synthetic creature.
 
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