Ah, Venge the almighty dictator with an iron fist?If any of you think this is a dictatorship you are sorely mistaken, Venge can be taken out of power as simply as anyone can?the fact that the project is a dictatorship has some merit, but no one person has absolute power.
To even refer to Venge as a Nazi even remotely I find extremely offensive. The Nazi party was arguably the best incarnation of evil the modern world has ever seen. Fascism and dictatorships are often associated as inherently evil?not true, the problem is in most cases they are in today?s age.
To say that China has made long strides to improving itself in the last ten years is a tad bit odd, it has gotten better for many people in china, but many still suffer the same extremes that where suffered 10 or even 20 years ago. While I would say the US has made large strides in the last 50 years towards racial equality, I am mentioning that as an example of great strides Vs. some improvements as we see in China.
As for socialism?I do not have knowledge of any countries that don?t have any socialistic qualities, and much like communism, the concepts and ideas of many of these things are not bad, they just run in the face of what in the end seems to be natural human tendencies.
In the end we require some order so that simply the strongest do not rule the world, the flip side is that the most intelligent rule the world, also terrible, as that requires some setup to say who is the most intelligent and that would not allow for manifest destiny, the movie Gataga made this argument, and I believe it to be true.
Any government that does not allow people to live as they wish, as long as they do not infringe on the rights of others has issues, the polygamy issue is a grand example in the US, or the abortion issue, or the suicide issue. Many of these are very gray and require great amounts of forethought to legislate correctly. Scientifically when does life begin and end?well many parts of us are alive long before and after death?so is it murder until every last cell in our bodies has died, well what is we make a machine that can bring us back?
Currently there is no government that allows people to live as they wish, until it affects the rights of others and until that is accomplished I feel all governments are flawed.
Pure democracy is flawed as people vote on emotion, and perception and for their own interests and not the interests of reality or the greater good, I am not saying that I hold the answers to ?what is the best governmental system? I am simply saying is all forms of governments have their flaws at this point in time, a governmental system is not inherently evil, only some lend themselves to be more evil then others.
We have a public forum to promote thoughts in and about the Planeshift video game, and like the referee of a boxing match, a police officer, a debate moderator, Venge supplies order to what could be chaos. Venge could freak out tomorrow and delete 90% of the posts?but shortly after Venge would no longer be the moderator.
As forum members we all participate in a debate and idea exchange, Venge has the added responsibility of moderating that.
If any of you think this invades your right to free speech, you have no idea what free speech is, sort of like
Eddie Vedder , but that is another issue.
Anyway I have lost what I was originally going to say and see this is going to go nowhere other then into comments about government types and other things as such that was not my point. If Venge is too heavy handed in your views there are other places you can post thoughts and express ideas, I would love to see a forum where everyone had moderator privileges. Just so we could see how immature people really are.
Anyway those are my thoughts.
