in the shell

"Soft porn"? I can't think of a single episode in the series that'd qualify as such.

The idea that morality and values are not tangible things and are not testable makes sense to me. However, I believe I can get around this difficulty by noting that when you talk of morals or values you talk about ideas that exist in the human mind rather than anything tangible or observable in the...

I think that where douyang is going* is to the platonic belief that objective "things" exists independently of ourselves. Basically, it is not exactly religious, but still a belief. This is where I disagree with him. But since it is a belief, it would be pointless to try to prove/disprove...

1. Most people have some sort of values they believe are objective and should apply to everyone, yet you don't see the vast majority of them turning into hitler or stalin, even those who have absolute or unlimited power like european monarchs. I didn't say that believing in an absolute, objective m...

I did say that it’s difficult to make death sentences work; perhaps it should be avoided altogether because of that. I do however think that if someone gives himself the right to kill or to destroy another life, he/she has just deprived himself/herself the right to be valued. And I think it’s a dou...

I have a real problem with Animae saying that the death penalty can be justified and virtuous simply because it is cheaper than keeping someone is prison or rehabilitating them. I agree here, both because I consider life the only undebateable value and because you can never eliminate the possibilit...

Unless you're in some sort of weird sci-fi movie scenario in which one of you has to go out and activate some deus ex machina to save the everyone. That's probably the only premeditave matrydom I agree upon. Well, those situations are usually do or die, so no real options exist, there. Then again, ...

As to CCTV (the cameras in the streets), I've never had a problem with it. I grew up with it, so I'm used to it; besides which the cameras are invisible. It's not like you feel that big brother is watching you (by the way, I think Orwell would be rolling in his grave even more over the stupid long-...

THYREN wrote: I do remember seeing something like that (is it in the last episode?)

The rookies don't appear in the last episode. And why would they be smoking weed, either? There is such thing as tobacco, you know.

Sorry for the dig. But one of the rookies smoked opium? :x Unlikely. Not exactly smart on the job. You can smoke normal cigarettes in opium town, you know - though I can't remember anybody doing even that. :wink: ... Perhaps I should start contributing this forum again a bit more than these oneline...

Is it just me? Or the prospect of a 3rd season is very unlikely given the ending of 2nd Gig? I taught so, too, first time I saw it, but after the Solid State Society, it's almost given that a third season is planned. That doesn't neccesarily mean it'll come out, but at least the groundwork's in pla...

Please describe the scenes - I can't remember everything by the episode number and I don't feel like rewatching, at the moment.

Solid State Society. The new TV movie that continues the story of Stand Alone Complex. It won't be out in the US until 2007.

Well, I just saw it, though without subs, since the only subs I was able to get my hands on were off synch and low quality. Despite of it, it certainly seemed interesting, though I'm dying to learn what the parts my lowly Japanese skills were unable to comprehend were about. Here's my commentary wit...

Hardware can always be duplicated. Science isn't magic, where you can't repeat previous results. If the software survives, hardware won't be a problem.