@IittIeguy@Eidosgeist@JFGariepy Ryan Gosling throws away his life on Earth to live with the aliens. It's subversive messaging, asking viewers to sacrifice their own interests for friendly outsiders.
@RR_PanwarWrites@TARSRel0aded Oh shut up. There's nothing ungrateful or unappreciative about a well-adjusted person mourning the loss of childhood. It's precisely someone making this post that allows you to imagine what you didn't have in the first place.
@GreeneMan6 I don't care for ContraPoints and I don't know Burns but nothing's wrong grammatically with the sentence. We write like this all the time. It's no different than saying "the Armada is failing the Empire" or "the music is failing to keep him awake".
@JFGariepy Dawkins, the author of the Blind Watchmaker, must be recognizing exactly this with his own statement. His discerning consciousness in Claudia raises questions around the very concept. But you've done much better making these questions explicit.