Ender is the protagonist of the series. So he is the one that needs to demonstrate tolerance. It isn't about the world tolerating him.

But for what it is worth, people initially see him as a hero for saving the Earth. Then after he writes a book on tolerance (The Hive Queen), society rails against his actions as a Xenocide, but loves the author of the book on tolerance. They also worship him for writing Speaker of the Dead, not realizing that he is the same person.

Again, there is a lesson on tolerance and acceptance there.

Locke and Demontheses are shock jocks in a sense. Kids create these puppets and have them say outrageous things to stir up populist movements and gain political power. Orson Scott Card basically predicted the internet, blogs and our current media.

As a kid, Ender's older brother is a bully and loves torturing animals just because, which is why the military program rejects him. Great leaders aren't sadists. They need empathy so their troops will want to support them.

In the Fantasy Game, Ender keeps dying to the Giant in his version of the Kobyashu Maru, and eventually kills the Giant by thinking outside the box. In a video game, he doesn't mind killing because it isn't real, and it sure beats dying.

Ender is tricking into killing an alien species because he thinks he is playing a game BUT the most important part is the end (and the entire rest of the series) in which Ender discovers the truth. He also discovers there is one alien left alive, who doesn't hate him. And Ender vows to find a safe planet for the last Hive Queen to right his wrong. The Buggers are perceived to be evil and abhorrent, when in reality they aren't if you get to know them. Ender writes a book called The Hive Queen in defense of his former enemy.

Jane, the first AI in the universe comes out to Ender because she knows he is tolerant and will accept her.

He also writes a book called Speaker of the Dead in which he says we must speak truthfully in all things about a life to really know someone.

When Humans then encounter their next alien species, Ender works to prevent another Xenocide and preaches tolerance.

The book doesn't advocate genocide/xenocide. It isn't about training kids to that end. It is a cautionary tale of how prejudice can lead to horrible mistakes, about empathy and tolerance. You either never read the book, or you have terrible reading comprehension.

I wouldn't boycott the movie because I disagree with the artist's personal views, or I'd have to boycott a lot of art.

I'd boycott the movie because I love the book, and the movie will likely piss me off. Spoilers below:

The movie apparently doesn't have Ender killing Bonzo because they didn't want to show youth violence or bullying. There is no fantasy game. The "kids" are much older and practically adults. Locke and Demontheses are completely cut out of the story.

The odd thing is that the point of Ender's Game is tolerance. The same man who wrote in essays that homosexuality itself should be criminalized and gays thrown in jail wrote this fantastic book that teaches tolerance.

Not the fact that he belonged to a church that taught that people of African descent were cursed by God?

Hypocrite much, liberal crusaders?

LK

As I stated earlier, I'd produce a link.

It is here.

• 115.00 Criminal facilitation in the fourth degree.
          A person is guilty of criminal facilitation in the fourth degree when, believing it probable that he is rendering aid:
          1. to a person who intends to commit a crime, he engages in conduct which provides such person with means or opportunity for the commission thereof and which in fact aids such person to commit a felony; or
          2. to a person under sixteen years of age who intends to engage in conduct which would constitute a crime, he, being over eighteen years of age, engages in conduct which provides such person with means or opportunity for the commission thereof and which in fact aids such person to commit a crime.

This is New York law. So this would apply to someone using this app to commit a crime in New York but other states have similar requirements, I'm just not going to give links to the criminal codes of the other 49 states to prove my point.

LK

No, it's used as short-hand for the general bundle of sensibilities that give rise to the urge for a Nanny State approach to things. Collectivist thinking, where people born with or raised to have a work ethic are, by definition, slaves to those who aren't, won't, etc. It doesn't matter where you draw the line between Communism and Socialism, because they come from the same ideological place: they call for an elite group of people to spell out how the efforts of some people will be confiscated in order to dole them out to other people. Structurally, permanently. The harder you're willing to work, the more of a slave you are.

Right... because words have actual meanings, and we have entirely different words that mean "handling" or "loading" or "storing" or "testing" or "fumbling" or "cleaning," etc. Lack of precision in the language surrounding the nature and use of firearms is a non-trivial problem (see so-called journalists who interchangeably - and cluelessly - use "machine gun" and "assault rifle" and "semi-automatic" and the like).

brandish [bran-dish]
verb (used with object)
1. to shake or wave, as a weapon; flourish: Brandishing his sword, he rode into battle.

I don't know anybody who would refer to, say, handing someone else a gun (say, while out plinking cans in the woods) as "brandishing."

You typically wouldn't be handling a gun in public pretty much ever. But around strangers? Say, at the range? Loading, cleaning, etc., happens all the time around other people. As a range officer, I can assure you it happens all the time.

Congress passed the protection of lawful commerce in arms act specifically to protect gun companies from this kind of charge.

I'm not going to do the searching on my phone, this evening I'll produce a link to either the statute or case law.

LK

Maybe once. But if they keep calling them for no reason, they'll arrest the caller for wasting their time and harassing the legal gun owner. Most cops are very familiar with the habitual paranoids and whiners on their beats.

This is, as they say, so wrong it's not even wrong.

Criminal facilitation only requires that you know(or should know) that the assistance you render is being used to commit a felony.

Even if a burglar uses this app to only target gunless homes, that's still criminal facilitation.

LK

What would you charge him with?

How about facilitation or criminal solicitation?

LK

There are shooting incidents at inner city schools but not mass shootings.

A gang has a problem with a member of a rival gang or two drug dealers have a problem and someone gets shot. There aren't mass shootings because inner city schools are built with security in mind and often have an armed police presence.

LK