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I think my heart just melted... 

How the hell have I only just discovered the Moe Repository? My life feels like it has direction now.

That is unpossible.

That's the thing I love about it, it's pretty much inevitable. If not household nukes, we'll (presumably) eventually figure out how the brain works, and then all you need is an efficient scanner to know when someone is going to commit a crime. And at that point society will agree that it's okay to do something that's pretty much unimaginable right now - prosecute thought crimes, because why would you wait for someone to commit mass murder if you can stop them before they do?
Also, my rambling post about SSY if anyone cares http://forums.fuwanovel.net/index.php?/topic/8063-the-official-fuwa-anime-club-special-music-cycle/?p=233914

I found Shin Sekai Yori very interesting because it presents a compelling security dilemma: In a world where a single person can kill hundreds of thousands of innocents with a single thought, how does society respond?  Psycho Pass's solution (Psycho Pass aired the same season) is a police state, where crimes are prosecuted essentially before they are even conceived by measuring a person's temperament (their potential to commit a crime).  Shin Sekai Yori's solution is genetic manipulation and rigorous childhood brainwashing to suppress violent tendencies, with systematic elimination of deviants that these measures fail to control.
 
I find this theme fascinating because it won't be long before we as a species face a similar dilemma.  Imagine a world where nuclear devices become concealable in a suitcase and fissionable material is as easy to come by as traditional explosives.  A single deranged individual could wipe out an entire city and make it uninhabitable for years more.  As a society, how will we deal with that threat?  My bets are on the police state solution.  Expect agencies like the US National Security Agency (NSA) to grow increasingly powerful as weaponry becomes increasingly advanced, to the point that even letting a single psychopath slip through could result in unacceptable economic damage and loss of human life.  And at that point--who will watch the Watchers?

This blog may just be the best one on these forums.

I've also noticed that you can differentiate VNs based on what sort of consequences your choices have. In some VNs nothing changes based on your choices (or very little, like whose H-scene you get at the end (looking at you, ML:U), in some VNs all of the changes are direct consequences of your choices (Katawa Shoujo is a good example, the only difference between the routes is who you spent/spend the most time with), and VNs where your choices affect which route you'll get, but not in a way that would make much sense outside of a VN environment (the first one that comes to mind is FS/N, pretty sure Shirou's actions aren't what cause Heavens Feel to happen instead of Unlimited Blade Works, though I may be mistaken).