Would YOU live in Rapture?
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Rapture before the fall? Probably. The place, before Mr. Ryan went crazy, was an elitist society where nothing was illegal. HELL YES.
Afterwards? Ehhh, not so much. I like to keep my sanity and/or blood/major organs.
Afterwards? Ehhh, not so much. I like to keep my sanity and/or blood/major organs.
More or less the same, + I'm a heavy socialist and egalitarian. Needless to say regardless of any skills or abilities I may have, the ideological gap would be unbridgeable.ScrubberDucky said:
"Utopian society?" Are you kidding?
Really? "Utopia" is where everyone treats everyone else solely as resources to be manipulated? Fuck that; I have to put up with that in modern business culture already and I hate it.
What Rand failed to understand is that without ethics (or even her foolish personal "re-interpretation" of ethics and how it relates to capitalism), the necessary cooperation between intellectuals (which Rand's ultimate argument for Utilitarianism depends on) wouldn't last for long; there is simply too much potential for personal advancement to be ignored.
Really? "Utopia" is where everyone treats everyone else solely as resources to be manipulated? Fuck that; I have to put up with that in modern business culture already and I hate it.
What Rand failed to understand is that without ethics (or even her foolish personal "re-interpretation" of ethics and how it relates to capitalism), the necessary cooperation between intellectuals (which Rand's ultimate argument for Utilitarianism depends on) wouldn't last for long; there is simply too much potential for personal advancement to be ignored.
Didn't they have bible smugglers? I guess you were rather right.deadman91 said:
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Nooooooooo. I'd hate to be with a small community and be feeling trapped. What if I want to go to a university? The internet connection probably isn't too great either.
It's less a question if I would live under Andrew Ryan's thumb and more if I'd like to live under the sea
I would like to.
I would like to.
Even ignoring the whole "Everyone going nuts and killing each other" thing, I'd hate it there. If anything I lean towards socialism and/or communism (if only it worked...), so I'm pretty much the opposite of the kind of person that lives in Rapture. Not to mention the fact that the whole place just seems like a creepy, claustrophobic and dangerous place to live anyway...
Without any foreknowledge of what was going to happen, I'd definitely take a shot at living there. There's no way I'd pass up the chance to live in a fully Objectivist society. Andrew Ryan does seem like kind of an idiot as far as Objectivists go, though, and once I realized that I'd have probably spoken out against him and been hanged long before things got as bad as they did in the game.
This, and I'm not claustrophobic, but...Zorak the Mantis said:
Also, I kinda like having the rest of society around, it is nice, and what I am used to.
No.
Seems claustraphobic, dangerous, scary and I KNOW WHAT HAPPENS THERE!
Seriously, who would want to live there!?
*looks at thread replies*
Oh.
Some of you guys obviously...
Seems claustraphobic, dangerous, scary and I KNOW WHAT HAPPENS THERE!
Seriously, who would want to live there!?
*looks at thread replies*
Oh.
Some of you guys obviously...