Also, y’know, Neo was miserable and depressed and trying to figure out why he felt like there was something deeply wrong with the world and then took a pill to explore the truth and gain the agency over his life he was lacking. Unrelatedly the authors are trans and left wing.

Couldn’t possibly be a metaphor for how modern society crushes freedom of expression and agency in order to serve the powerful often in ways most people aren’t even aware of.

Most likely what the minor did to need to be physically restrained is covered by privacy laws.

Tell me you’ve never been a professional driver without telling me.

I’m not casually dismissing what comes after, I’m saying it’s still better than the alternative. Also for the record, I am a trans woman who has guns.

If you use a gun to defend yourself the alternative if you dont have the gun is generally assumed to be rape or death or both. What happens after is another question, but you have a right to obtain and carry a gun to use it to protect yourself.

Officer would you still arrest me if I was a worm?