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I didn\'t see the scene in question, but I got the impression from folks who did that when Katara\'s mother said she was the waterbender, the soldier who killed her didn\'t bother verifying it. Is that correct? Because I\'m wondering if that might still count as a war crime.
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I didn\\\'t see the scene in question, but I got the impression from folks who did that when Katara\\\'s mother said she was the waterbender, the soldier who killed her didn\\\'t bother verifying it. Is that correct? Because I\\\'m wondering if that still counts as a war crime.
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* Scientific research does not work nearly fast enough to synthesize a viable vaccine from brand new material in a week. Most certainly, creating enough of the vaccine to spread in the entire world\'s water supply would take far, far, \'\'far\'\' longer than a month (try... 50 years minimum provided they have unlimited resources and nothing unforeseen happens).
* Vaccine is the wrong word for what he\'s proposing. Vaccines prevent infection, but do nothing if one is already infected. The word he\'s looking for is probably \
* Vaccine is the wrong word for what he\'s proposing. Vaccines prevent infection, but do nothing if one is already infected. The word he\'s looking for is probably \
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* Scientific research does not work nearly fast enough to synthesize a viable vaccine from brand new material in a week. Most certainly, creating enough of the vaccine to spread in the entire world\\\'s water supply would take far, far, \\\'\\\'far\\\'\\\' longer than a month (try... 50 years minimum provided they have unlimited resources and nothing unforeseen happens). Also, vaccines cannot be made waterbourne (they\\\'re specifically based around a precise measurement).
* Vaccine is the wrong word for what he\\\'s proposing. Vaccines prevent infection, but do nothing if one is already infected. The word he\\\'s looking for is probably \\\"antibody\\\". This is far from a misconception limited to dopes, however; movies and video games (such as the \\\'\\\'SyphonFilter\\\'\\\' series) make this mistake all the time.
* Genes cannot be modified by any pharmaceutical. Even genetic engineering is a minimum of a hundred years away from achieving a full reform of a person\\\'s structure. (\\\'\\\'DieAnotherDay\\\'\\\' makes this mistake as well, so again, not limited to dopes.)
** Even if one changed a person\\\'s genetic make-up to remove all \\\"homosexual genes\\\", there\\\'s still the fact that those past puberty will still be imprinted with a preference for their same gender. Body chemistry (i.e. hormones) is just as important to biology as genetics. Or, another way to think of it: somebody wants to add a water slide to an apartment building. Would they get very far if they just walked into the public records building and drew a water slide on the official blueprints?
* All-caps Comic Sans (or Comic Sans knockoff, I think) makes my eyes hurt.
* Vaccine is the wrong word for what he\\\'s proposing. Vaccines prevent infection, but do nothing if one is already infected. The word he\\\'s looking for is probably \\\"antibody\\\". This is far from a misconception limited to dopes, however; movies and video games (such as the \\\'\\\'SyphonFilter\\\'\\\' series) make this mistake all the time.
* Genes cannot be modified by any pharmaceutical. Even genetic engineering is a minimum of a hundred years away from achieving a full reform of a person\\\'s structure. (\\\'\\\'DieAnotherDay\\\'\\\' makes this mistake as well, so again, not limited to dopes.)
** Even if one changed a person\\\'s genetic make-up to remove all \\\"homosexual genes\\\", there\\\'s still the fact that those past puberty will still be imprinted with a preference for their same gender. Body chemistry (i.e. hormones) is just as important to biology as genetics. Or, another way to think of it: somebody wants to add a water slide to an apartment building. Would they get very far if they just walked into the public records building and drew a water slide on the official blueprints?
* All-caps Comic Sans (or Comic Sans knockoff, I think) makes my eyes hurt.
