seretogis

The author is spot-on here, "realism" is a very flimsy justification for including sexual assault. One also does not need to even include sexual assault to evoke the same "gritty" or revolting feeling as rape, just look at the larval state of xenimorphs in the Alien franchise - they enter through your mouth and "birth" themselves violently through your chest.

TFA explains in the second paragraph:

> These devices are not stolen but are originally intended for other regions.

This seems so backwards to me. One invests in the home they live in, to improve their quality of life and the value of their own property. Buying more properties than you need to live is what drives up housing costs, because other people need those homes to live in and you're using that core basic human need as a method to extract capital from them.

It seems you're being deliberately obtuse. There is a clear and obvious difference between "well someone can break that" and "someone has built a backdoor into this thing you purchased, for their own use".

I have no issue with your post, but what a ridiculous situation we find ourselves in. We can't get rid of bad apples because of police unions and the relationship between prosecutors and police. It's not politically viable for politicians to enforce standards for police. So, instead, we have to hire a for-profit intermediary to come up with profit-centered reasons to enforce these standards. Yikes.

I'd have a tummy ache. :(