YES! Perfect description! That should be the definition of the term.

That would be the lie part.

The whole idea of “Canon” is a comforting self delusion and lie.
Let it go. Enjoy what’s in front of you. Stop getting distracted by things that don’t really matter to the story at hand. That’s how TOS did it.

You got COVID for Thanksgiving!?
I’ve got COVID for Thanksgiving!

This Thanksgiving’s gonna be SICK!!

Stovetop is a brand of prepackaged stuffing/dressing

Wouldn’t he say “The question we were looking for”?

Been a long time since I watched Jeopardy.

I wouldn’t have one.

It honestly always seemed silly to me. Unless I told the helmsman to wait for some reason, they should just go as soon as they’re ready. Why wait an extra moment just for me to say “go”?

That said, if it was some kind of required protocall, I’d pick a different silly term each time. Like “Banana Bread”, “Pencil”, or “Fuck off”.

That’s an effect on your ability to work, not the computers. The computer still doesn’t care.

Isn’t this usually for saying the obvious thing that will never be done?

Doubt any of us could really say, as we haven’t spent much time in space.

Any one who has, please speak up.

I have a very dark sense of humor, and no problem making light of suicide. If that was meant to be a joke, it wasn’t a good one. It came off more as a dark insult than anything.

I don’t doubt there is a solid joke in there. But it needs work.

The first is by definition always an exception. We don’t know if they’re unique, until others try the same thing.

I never said being super nice was the fix. Being a friend is. It’s hard to be bigoted against a group, when one of that group is a good friend. But yes anyone outside the targeted group, won’t be able to have quite the same effect. Those outside the group can be helpful though. If a trusted friend points out your short comings, you’re more likely to second guess them, or at least not take them as far as you might otherwise.

See I would hold the bigot responsible. Its doesn’t seem right or practical to put millions of people on trial for one person’s act.

Who’s worldview is incompatible? Mine or theirs? Or both?
And who’s apologizing? I’m simply point out that they’re a diverse group, with diverse motivations.

That could be possible.

Though going to a time and place where the target group were so “othered” (is that a word) as to not even be human, that removes more mental barriers than simply the law.

Yes I agree with all of that. Person A would be an accessory to murder.

Being an accessory to murder is a different thing than being a murderer. That’s why they have different labels. I think you view them as the same? Or are suggesting they are?

People can become bigots for a variety of reasons. Many are fully aware of their prejudices, and feel they have justification. Bigots are nearly as diverse as people as the those they dislike.

Who is part of what murder? Neither of the people in your scenario has killed anyone yet.

Perhaps. But that still wouldn’t make them killers.

I suppose I’m marking a difference between tolerating bigots, and tolerating bigotry. Respecting and accepting people with bigoted ideas, is very different from respecting and accepting the ideas themselves. Part of being a friend, is point out when that friend is being dick. That would still hold true here.