Real Life Rapture Doesnt Need 'Loser Building Codes!'

[SacremPyrobolum]

Does anyone else see this as a really bad idea...
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/silicon-valley-billionaire-funding-creation-artificial-libertarian-islands-140840896.html

 

[thiosk]

Aside from being right out of the pages of Brink, libertarian uptopian fantasy, bioshock, and others, billionaires can do whatever they so choose with their money. If its creating new floating countries, go for it.

10 bucks says when a boatload of criminals show up and gut them and their property, they'll call the mainland security services for assistance.

 

[SacremPyrobolum]

Aside from being right out of the pages of Brink, libertarian uptopian fantasy, bioshock, and others, billionaires can do whatever they so choose with their money. If its creating new floating countries, go for it.

10 bucks says when a boatload of criminals show up and gut them and their property, they'll call the mainland security services for assistance.

I am not saying they cant do it I'm just saying it is a really bad idea.

 

[Delsana]

Obviously have overpriced security that's likely ex secret service and military.

 

[chinangel]

Seriously? One thing pops to mind when I read this:
"Would ya kindly?"

>.>

This could be an unmitigated disaster.

 

[NightHawk21]

This is awesome. Now I only got to find my old pirate ship and get a couple mates together and have some fun.

 

[The Virgo]

Aside from being right out of the pages of Brink, libertarian uptopian fantasy, bioshock, and others, billionaires can do whatever they so choose with their money. If its creating new floating countries, go for it.

10 bucks says when a boatload of criminals show up and gut them and their property, they'll call the mainland security services for assistance.

Actually, I would personally like my own island country. I would call it "The Monarchical Island of Virgonia" and it would be illegal for anyone who wasn't born between August 23rd and September 22nd to live there. Why? Because I would be king and I like Virgos. There, you don't like it, leave my kingdom! :-D

As for the criminal part, that's what defenses are for. You don't build an island and have weapons there for such a disaster.

 

[Rawne1980]

Hell i'd volunteer to do security for it.

Imagine the giggles you could get watching people flail about trying to create a society with no law or regulations.

 

[Delsana]

Hell i'd volunteer to do security for it.

Imagine the giggles you could get watching people flail about trying to create a society with no law or regulations.

Or... the massive amount of security work YOU'D HAVE TO DEAL WITH, with REGULATIONS.

 

[Hagi]

It could be a kind of evolution I guess...

I mean everyone who thinks humanity thrives on competition and not empathy can go to these islands..... And we'll find out if they're right (current neurological research suggests: NOT).

 

[thiosk]

I would call it "The Monarchical Island of Virgonia" and it would be illegal for anyone who wasn't born between August 23rd and September 22nd to live there.

I'm invited! How great!

 

[Pinkamena]

Ummmm...
My mind are coming up with all these different scenarios that could happen with such an island. Curse you, years of gaming! You are messing with my mind!

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

One word: pirates -- and I don't mean the internet kind. I won't have any sympathy when the pirates come around, nor will I have any when the free access to weapons coupled with the lack of laws leads to a situation where murder and armed robbery are like saying hello. Plus, when it inevitably sinks into the sea, either due to infighting, hurricanes, or just shoddy construction due to loose building codes, we can call the wreckage on the ocean floor Rapture.

Edit: And that's assuming this ever gets off the ground, and it's not just a bizarre pyramid scheme.

 

[Rawne1980]

Dont forget no building codes. Because its not like those things exist for a reason.

You'd have to keep a rubber dinghy stashed somewhere.

They are on an oil rig style platform.

You know sooner or later some tool is going to have built enough to sink the bugger.

I couldn't live there as a citizen but, as I said, i'd love to do security just for a giggle.

 

[My name is Fiction]

Seriously? One thing pops to mind when I read this:
"Would ya kindly?"

>.>

This could be an unmitigated disaster.

Who doesn't love unmitigated disasters?
Their like train wreaks but much slower now with the chance of genetic engineering.

 

[DazBurger]

Actually, I would personally like my own island country. I would call it "The Monarchical Island of Virgonia" and it would be illegal for anyone who wasn't born between August 23rd and September 22nd to live there.

I'm born between September 22nd and August 23rd... Is that good enough?

 

[Sizzle Montyjing]

All i can think of is a sort of summermist manor set up where one person bumps of another until only the murderer and the last person remain, and that last victim shall be struck with a horrible realisation.

Then the place will fade into legend until a small crew of young and naive teenagers come across it, and then the game starts again...

...
That was a bit in-depth.