Random brain blurt

It occurs to me that Tony Stark is basically all four of the A-team rolled into one person. B.A's mechanical genius (give me the contents of a warehouse and I'll build you the death-machine of your choice), Murdock's operational abilities (if it's got flight controls of any kind, or something that could pass for flight controls, I can fly it), Hannibal's tactical sensibilities (seriously, look at Hannibal on the jazz, and Tony in battle, and try tell me they're not the same flavour of crazy), and Face's facade with all its myriad uses (bugging the Helicarrier, that was such a classic Face manoeuver).

... I'm not sure which thought is scarier. That Tony is a one-man A-team, or that the A-team is like four (partial) Tony Starks. But either way, they are all the crazy, and should probably never, ever meet. *grins faintly* Not unless you really need that many explosions, anyway. Heh.

I think too much

*rubs face* Right. The past week or so has been a cluster of really heavy, often painful, and sometimes aggressive conversations in my family. (Clusters like that tend to happen occasionally, when too many factors converge on too many people - they also tend to domino). Because some of those discussion are my mother and sister attempting to navigate the differences between their general understandings of things versus mine and my father's (with some big differences emerging between the two of them, too, and some between my father and I, but, y'know, different people, even outside of the gross divides of brain chemistry), my mother started researching Aspergers again. (Which, as a general response, I can't fault. When in doubt, acquire more information).

There were a lot of things that bubbled up during the week, most of which I don't really want to talk about. But there was one thing, because my mam was reading Baron-Cohen and it came up, that sort of fascinated me.

In the book she was reading, the author said two things that impacted me (not sure about the rest).

( A small discussion on empathy, logic and morality: )