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  • If the “bad guys” are not relatable; then they generally come off as cartoonishly evil, and unrealistic.

    Think the bad guys in Avatar, going after the unobtainum or whale brain juice. They are evil for the sake of the suffering, getting the macuffin is seemingly secondary to that; and thus are a joke.

    If they are totally two dimensional, they don’t make good villains.

    Great villains; have merit to their plans, it is the methods they use and the suffering they cause in pursuit of those goals that marks them as bad.

    Look at Killmonger, in Black Panther. He is 100% correct, his view that Wakanda’s isolation has caused great suffering is true, his plan to open it up to the rest of the world is what happens in the end; just not by him…it is his methods that mark him as a bad guy.




  • It depends on where you are.

    e.g. in NZ, we don’t have a problem with illegal immigration, but completely legal “temporary migrant workers”.

    The issue, isn’t the people, it’s the load on already stretched infrastructure. Because they are “temporary”, they are not factored into the calculations for infrastructure spending.

    This wouldn’t be a problem, if a short team need was being met, but it isn’t… There are always temporary workers, because we as a country can’t fill all the jobs from local supply.

    With birth rates and other immigration, our population growth is around 1.5%, not the 0.5% we target our spending at.

    If we spent at a rate that accounted for the real population growth, everything would work better for everyone.