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85% of the worm community in a single sentence.Oh well guess i'll wait and see. Thanks anyway Great story to see more.
85% of the worm community in a single sentence.Oh well guess i'll wait and see. Thanks anyway Great story to see more.
Considering this is a Worm/Phoenix crossover, considering just about every superpower story out there... you really want people to have randomized access to superpowers?
Considering this is a Worm/Phoenix crossover, considering just about every superpower story out there... you really want people to have randomized access to superpowers?
Yes, that's a great example. For me. I'd love to have even more of the world starving to death through overpopulation due to lack of additional food supply to cope with the decrease in deaths freeing up space for births.I wouldn't mind if everyone had the power of super health.
That would solve a lot of problems.
Yes, that's a great example. For me. I'd love to have even more of the world starving to death through overpopulation due to lack of additional food supply to cope with the decrease in deaths freeing up space for births.
IRL murder is illegal, in Worm murder is illegal. Why? Because murder is morally/ethically wrong and disruptive to society.
IRL profiting from crime is illegal. Why? It isn't just because the profits gained from crimes are considered illegally obtained/damages of the crimes committed. That would fall under moral/ethical wrongness and disruption of society. It's because crime is morally/ethically wrong and disruptive to society so it cannot be incentivized in any way. You may not keep the money you mugged a man for, you may not keep the insurance money you killed for, you may not keep the money given to you by your drug-dealing financial supporter, and you may not loot criminals because that incentivizes criminality. Not because it always benefits a criminal, but because Crime is not allowed to pay, and you've just turned a profit from somebody committing a crime. On top of that, that money you took is evidence and/or forfeited to the state because it is either illegally obtained or damages of the crimes committed. There is a reason criminal organizations launder their money.
And this is why when the police use civil forfeiture laws to take away suspected criminals' money they burn it instead of spending it.
Is this sarcasm? Because I don't think that is true, cause police actions and such.
No, it wasn't sarcasm. that was also sarcasm.
My point was that allowing heroes to take villains' money isn't any more inherently "crime pays" than allowing the police to take criminals' money. It's also ridiculous to suggest that taking criminals' money away "incentivizes criminality".
... We're off topic, aren't we. I think I'll just finish by saying I think giving anyone the ability to put themselves above anyone else for arbitrary/random reasons is a bad idea.
I think Police departments don't generally keep the money they confiscate locally, and they certainly don't just stuff it into the pockets of the responding officer, so there's a pretty large difference between police seizure and a vigilante taking your stuff in terms of incentives.My point was that allowing heroes to take villains' money isn't any more inherently "crime pays" than allowing the police to take criminals' money. It's also ridiculous to suggest that taking criminals' money away "incentivizes criminality".
That's why there'd be hard limits on the amounts of money. As well as likely the source of the money. I mean no one is going to let you walk out with 100K that was taken from the bank that morning, but keeping the few hundred the dealer got from his costumers before you took him down is fair game. I mean even if they don't officially let that happen, no one is going to make an issue if the heroes slip the money in their pockets after the arrest.We need a tag or something, The difference , hopefully, is that the police are a more transparent organization.
Imagine that villain A robs a bank
Hero B "finds" Villain A's hide out a Captures the money, but Villian A "escapes".
Under the proposed spoils laws the money is now legally Hero B's.
Villain A and Hero B are the same person and they have the money free and clear, and all it cost was one disposable costume.
Or you could sell low quality drugs directly to the police.
Chills. Every time. Gods, the oringial Pheonix Saga was AWESOMEsauce....at least, before the crappy retcons...
Gwen Stacy is sort of alive.Didn't she die for real at the end of that, and it stuck for long enough for her to make the original list of exceptions (now cut down to Uncle Ben and Gwen Stacy) to comic deaths not being permanent?
Oh hi, guys, what's going on here-
Okay, are we really jonesing this hard for a new chapter? I just put up on Saturday!
To hopefully(hah) quell this... I'm not going into minutiae about how Taylor theoretically might or might not be capable of supporting herself if she were to run away or whatever started this. Suffice to say, if she does, I'm sure, given what has been demonstrated in the story so far, that it should be pretty easy to determine how she could avoid slumming on someone's couch. EB isn't irl, we don't have superheroes(how I wish we did), or a government funded organization to manage said superheroes. The legal system for dealing with them is completely alien to us so postulating on what looting from criminal laws are here irl means absolutely nothing to the story.
Color me surprised. What's the over-under on Spider-Ben?
Didn't she die for real at the end of that, and it stuck for long enough for her to make the original list of exceptions (now cut down to Uncle Ben and Gwen Stacy) to comic deaths not being permanent?
*grabs your shirt with trembling fingers* That abomination, that spawn of hackneyed writing and poor storytelling is NOT CANON! I DENY her, do you hear me??? DEEE NAIIIIII!
*pantpant* Sorry. *lets go of shirt* It's a hot button.
Want me to mention how you've shown us she'll support herself at first?