Your alternative is, what, mob justice? Government fiat? Anarchy?

they are parasites, a drain on society, they comprise over 90 percent of future lawmakers, and the worst and most craven and unpatriotic of them will become judges and prosecutors.

And if you find yourself in a court room accused of something you are going to be desperate for one to help you.

Flip the switch from "Ballroom" to "Mausoleum".

Sad how far Google has fallen behind in AI development.

Lower Decks showed us what would happen if Kim ever became a lieutenant. Janeway was saving us all.

"The Military/Ballroom Complex" is a phrase that time-traveler me from 2023 is going to be a little baffled by.

In Act 4, Scene 2 of Henry VI, Part 2, Dick the Butcher utters the line "The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers" during a rebellion led by Jack Cade.

Cade, a pretender to the throne, hopes to destabilize the existing social order and the line serves as a recognition that lawyers are impediments to his rule. It's a widely misinterpreted line that's usually used to express anti-lawyer sentiment.

There's a straightforward way to resolve the paradox of tolerance, IMO. Treat tolerance as a social contract. An intolerant person has explicitly rejected the contract.

I'm largely pro-AI, so yeah, I've been hit by a couple of pretty big downvote bombs now and then. Even had my very own stalker for a while.

I haven't wandered into any of the tankie-related battlefields, though, so I'm sure there are much bigger masses of downvotes to be found out there.

Utilitarianism is a tricky philosophy, it's got a lot of sharp edges like this.

Sitting here in Canada, watching Trump randomly threaten tariffs every other day whenever it strikes his fancy to demand some new concession from us despite decades of free trade agreements and frameworks in place to supposedly prevent this, thinking this isn't actually an Iran problem.

The Lagrange points are only stable as long as the object in them is much, much smaller than the planet is. Once it becomes large enough to be exerting gravitational influence of its own the Lagrange points become unstable and it drifts out.

I don't think it's widely accepted as plausible any more, but I recall reading a theory that Theia (the planetoid that impacted Earth very early in the solar system's formation to cause the formation of the Moon) formed in one of the L4/L5 points in exactly the manner you're proposing but then collided with Earth once it got too big to remain stable there. IIRC more recent simulations suggest Theia had to hit at a higher velocity than this scenario was capable of producing, so that's why it's been deprecated, but the formation-then-instability bit is still valid.