NationStates - Issues

[Rote Zora]

Ich hab jetzt auch die Issue, in denen ich Demonstrationen entweder ganz verbieten kann, auf irgendwelche Reservate verbannen soll, oder die Polizei gar nichts mehr tun darf, selbst wenn's in Randale ausbricht. Tolle Alternativen...

[Harutsune]

Och nööö, nicht schon wieder so'n Bockmist, so langsam geht's mir echt auf's Scrotum:

Animal Liberation Front Strikes Again

Government Acts

The Issue

The increasingly militant Animal Liberation Front struck again last night, freeing dozens of chickens bound for delicious snack packs.

The Debate

1. "These nuts have got to be stopped," demands concerned consumer Thomas Summers. "They need to face the fact people want snack packs, no matter how many innocent chickens must be sacrificed. Besides, chickens would do the same to us if they had the chance."


2. "These Liberationists are highlighting an important issue," pleads Chastity Broadside. "Too often, animals are put through needless cruelty, just to make their flesh taste a little more deliciously succulent. I'm sure we could ban the more horrific abuses without putting too much of a dent in our national obesity figures. Couldn't we?"

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3. "Animals have feelings too!" yelled protestor Roger Wong, before being set upon by hungry passers-by. "Free the animals! Ban meat-eating!"


4. Economist Max King has an alternative. "You don't need to take away the people's right to choose. You just need to build the costs of animal suffering into the price. A tax on meat-eating, in proportion to the amount of cruelty involved, would do the trick. Plus think of the benefit for the national coffers! Of course, poor people wouldn't be able to afford meat, but that's just more incentive for them to get jobs."

Ich stimme bewußt so liberal ab, daß Carnivorismus *nicht* geächtet werden wird, das kommt dabei raus:

Following new legislation in Gullikyn, meat-eating is frowned upon.

Menno, so große Tüten gibt's gar nicht, wie ich sie gerade vollschwallen könnte.. Finger weg, schmeckt *nicht* wie Hühnchen..

@ RZ
Ich hatte das neulich auch, aber eine Option mehr zur Auswahl..

[Veldryn]

@Haru: Ja, über das Ergebnis hab ich mich auch geärgert... ging mir ganz genauso.

Ich hab heut was interessantes:

A surprise raid conducted on ISPs over the last week in Solipsisma shows that more than 30% of all Internet data transfer in Solipsisma at one time or another is used by illegal file-shares to illegally distribute files, most notably songs.

The Debate

"What we need to do is hack their computers and format their hard drives," says Johann Clinton, recording industry representative. "People need to be taught to not mess with the law. This is theft, pure and simple. And they're not only halving our revenue to tune of billions of sens, but you are also stealing a few hundredths of a sen from the artist for every song they steal. THINK OF THE STARVING ARTISTS!"


"Yo, dude, like, don't be hatin' man," says teenager Samuel Bush. "We're like, going to change the whole structure of our society. Everything should be like, publicly available to, like, everybody, dude. Copyrights are so, like, uncool man and we need to get rid of them. That'd be totally radical, and cool as well."

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"Yo, dang, blizzity blang, yo, this ain't, right, yo," says Billy Mistletoe, famous rapper with three platinum albums. "Dang, yo, we dang need to copy-protect my dang CDs, yo. That dang playability life dang decreases, yo, but it's the only way to stop this, dang, yo."

Nu bin ich wirklich mal gespannt, wo DAS hinführt.

[Olome Keratin]

@Veldryn: Copyright laws abolished.

[Mantis]

Tjaa, zwei Mal beim Klicken nicht lang genug über mögliche Konsequenzen nachgedacht, und schon sind meine Bürger militante Vegetarier und schauen sich rassistische Fernsehsendungen an. Ups

Wie gut, dass ich kein echtes Staatsoberhaupt bin

[Lisra]

Und auf einmal sind überall Windkraftwerke. Whops.

Zum Glück sind die white cats Waldbewohner.

[Timestop]

Rassistische Vegetarier? Schützt die weissen Schafe, aber sperrt die schwarzen weg.

[Harutsune]

*Bittet flehendlich um einen 'Kopf-gegen-die-Wand-Smiley'*

Diving For Flens-Gummis

The Issue

Divers from a local scuba club have discovered an enormous underwater gold deposit that could be worth billions of Flens-Gummis in one of Gullikyn's lakes. It has also caused a huge debate over who should be allowed to plunder the goods.

The Debate

1. Bill Utopia, a cabinet member, would like the government to seize the deposit. "This is an excellent time to boost Gullikyn's economy and increase our foreign trade with other countries! Who cares about the people that discovered the deposit? They've done their country a great favor and should let us have the money!"
2. Beth Hamilton, a civil rights activist, vehemently disagrees. "The deposit was found by private citizens and it should be their choice of what to do with the gold. If the government goes around stealing what is rightfully ours, then I shudder to think I live in such a corrupt country. These people discovered the gold, it's now their time to get rich! Nevermind the fact they were diving in a lake on government property!"
3. "We should do what now?" Environmentalist Pete Steele exclaims. "Do you have any idea how damaging it would be to the environment to mine the gold under that lake? Think of all the aquatic life that would be disrupted or destroyed! Think of how an otherwise pristine lake view would be ruined! Forget the gold and keep those money-grubbing pigs away from nature!"

Erst hab ich das so verstanden, daß da jemand einen ziemlich Haufen 'Münzen' unter Wasser gefunden hat, am Ende stellt sich raus, daß es sich um ein (natürliches) Goldvorkommen zu handeln scheint..
..und wieder mal nur schwarz und weiß zur Auswahl - entweder alles fällt dem Staat zu, oder der Finder darf's behalten, dazwischen nichts..
Option drei fällt angesichts unserer Wirtschaftslage eh flach..

[Gala]

Für mich war das ein absoluter No-brainer.

Rohstoffe gehören der Allgemeinheit. Und ein genereller Verbot von Rohstoffen zwecks mehr Umweltschutz halte ich dann doch für übertrieben. Man kann denselben See, wenn er wirklich seltene Arten enthält, ja woanders aufbauen.

Landbesitz bedeutet nicht, das einem die Rohstoffe auf dem Land gehören - nur das man das Land für bestimmte Dinge benutzen darf. Man darf es aber auch z.B. nicht umweltverschmutzen.

[Branka]

Ich hab mir auch die Kohle gegrapscht

[Mantis]

Und jetzt zitieren sie Shakespeare - also zumindest einige von ihnen. Die anderen verwenden die ganze Zeit Kraftausdrücke

...
wobei, das muss sich ja auch nicht ausschliessen

[Ysrthgrathe]

Ich hab bei meinem letzten Issue entschieden, Schriftsteller staatlich zu fördern.
Dadurch ist meine Economy jetzt auf Frightening, die höchste Stufe, geklettert.
Ja, macht total Sinn, das sowas die Wirtschaft ganz entscheidend fördert.
Moment, was ist der Programmierer des Spiels noch mal hauptberuflich? Ach ja, Schriftsteller.

Dafür sind meine Political Freedoms gesunken, als ich öffentliche Verkehrsmittel abgeschafft habe.
(Dafür darf man auf den zehnspurig ausgebauten Straßen sogar mit Panzern unterwegs sein, und zwar völlig ohne Geschwindigkeitsbeschränkungen.)

[Mantis]

Soeben die Studiengebühren abgeschafft und mit staatlicher Förderung von Studenten ersetzt.

Irgendwie verschafft mir das Genugtuung

[Harutsune]

Violent Violetists Demand Blood!

Government Acts

The Issue

Members of a new weird religious cult, called the Order of Violet, ask for the government to appease their mighty god by offering Her a sacrifice of the human variety.

The Debate

1. "What have we got to lose?" says religious freedoms advocate Billy Steele. "Just cut up a few homeless folk - it appeases this group's bloodthirsty Goddess, gets rid of unsightly bums that drain welfare, and everybody goes home happy."
2. "We must go much further than a few beggars!" argues the overzealous High Member of the Order of Violet, Billy Nagasawa. "You must pass a law that everyone's first born child must be slaughtered, on live TV if possible. Think of the viewing figures!"
3. "You aren't going to listen to these whackjob Violetists, are you?" comments Sue-Ann Trax while leading a prayer group. "Human sacrifices! Surely we're too civilized to permit such barbaric practices! These lunatic fringe groups should be outlawed, and their leaders should be executed!"
   
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4. "Who's being a lunatic?" retorts Bill Li of the Gullikyn Humanitarian Society. "I agree that these practices ought to be outlawed, but instead of sinking to the same level of these fanatics and killing our fellow people, why not simply start a re-education program? Even the worst person can be rehabilitated into a useful member of society, with enough time, care, and lots and lots of funding!"

Theisten kann man gar nicht umerziehen, sollen sie doch *ihr* Blut bekommen..

..und ab morgen habe ich wohl eine Hauptstadt - mit rotem Platz, nehme ich mal an..

[Raldaf]

One Wife Is Never Enough, Say Polygamists

The Issue

A small religious group is lobbying the government to allow them to take multiple wives.

The Debate

1. "It's about time we had our religious rights recognized," says Clint McGuffin, a devout member of a faith that is never made quite clear. "Who is the government to tell me I can't love more than one woman? The government doesn't know how much of me there is to go around!"


2. "This is nothing more than sexual deviants using religion as a pretext for perversion!" says Reverend Alexei McGuffin. "Marriage is one man, one woman, and death do we part. What's so hard to get? Anything else is a perversion, and must be banned."


3. "Multiple wives? Excellent!" says passer-by Gregory Nagasawa. "Presumably we will allow multiple husbands, as well. And gay marriages, of course. In fact, now is probably the time for the government to butt out of marriage altogether. Let people marry their cats, if they want."

Ich will ja eigentlich einen furchtbar präsenten Staat machen, der demzufolge auch bei Heiraten alles entscheidet, aber ich tendiere trotzdem zu Antwort 3... Katzenehen!

[Branka]

Ich habe mich auch für die Katzenehen entschieden

[Olome Keratin]

Ich auch.

[Gala]

Um ...

[...] a weakened police force struggles to maintain law and order. Crime is totally unknown.

Äh ... wie ? LOL