Your ego-depletion seems problematically difficult to assuage.

Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.

nobody ever wrote to me saying"you know ender's game was a pretty good book, but you know what it really needs a n introduction!".....so be assured the novel stands on its own, and if you skip this intro and go straight to the story, i not only won't stand in your way i'll even agree with you!

The Buggers have finally, finally learned that we humans value each and every individual human life. But they've learned this lesson just in time for it to be hopelessly wrong — for we humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our own lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in the foxhole. We rise out of the trenches and charge the entrenched enemy and die like maggots under a blowtorch. We strap bombs on our bodies and blow ourselves up in the midst of our enemies. We are, when the cause is sufficient, insane.

I doubt that America will come to Europe again. You'll be on your own against militant Islam.

Good people do not let others suffer needlessly.

The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet.