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Naw, they wouldn't discriminate them.
Pod 6 is another story.
Beware of Smokers.
i sea what you did there
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I don't think that underwater cities will solve any overpopulation problem, unless those cities have a lower per-person ecological footprint than above-ground cities. And if we had the technology to make sustainable underwater cities, why don't we just make sustainable above-ground cities first?
We've got plenty of places to put people. We just don't have any way to give the people that live there first-world standards of living without raping the environment at the same time.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I barqued out a laugh.
What? Somebody had to say it schooner or later.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Everything I know about urban planning I learned from SimCity, but it doesn't seem beyond the realm of possibility that a city planned with modern technology from the ground up could be more efficient than a centuries-old ad hoc agglutination. Maybe not enough to be a very good idea, but still.
It's just beyond the realm of possibility that libertarians would build one.
Agreed. Moniker would have some words about this, too, but just planning a city with eco footprint in mind would be a huge advantage.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Guys, I'm going to give you a stern warning here to knock it off. You may think making waves in my thread with your horrible puns is just swell, but I won't stand for it.
I'm curious to see where the science stands on this. Wiki has some articles on arcologies and self-contained cities.
Look, I don't harbor any desire to assassinate your thread. It might ap-pier like I'm as-sailing it with wordplay to take it off course, but just trust that I'm knot.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
make it stop
I'm going to be rich and famous when I discover a method to shove a dildo in someone's eye socket via broadband.
A month? That's super generous. I'm curious as to whether any country would respond to the "Oh god pirates save us" call that would inevitably happen.
Steam: Drokmir
You're supposed to say "belay that"
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Sea Britain.
It really takes me away to where I'm going.
WTF?!
THIS, IS, Seasteadiiiiiing!!!
I made a Libertarian text adventure game just now. I'll post the code.
#include <iostream> using namespace std; int main() { cout << "Welcome to Libertarian Adventure!" << endl << "West of House" << endl; cout << "You are in front of your house. It is April 16. You laugh haughtily because you didn't pay your income taxes because they are illegal." << endl; cout << "The police come to your house and arrest you for failing to pay your taxes for the past ten years. You are thrown in prison for the next twenty years."; cout << "Game over." << endl; return 0; }I would assume that any group willing to dedicate millions of dollars to the construction and maintenance of such a location would at least give passing thoughts to their own security.
That may be crediting people far too much common sense, but that is my quiet hope.
I don't think any 'private security force' would amount to a hill of beans when 10 fine sailing ships and like, 200 men of stout nature and ill temperment with nothing to lose show up. Plus they'll probably pay those dudes as little as possible.
I don't think libertarians would have to sink much investment into arming a militia to deal with pirates. I think they've already got a lot of the sorts of weapons that they'd need, and a lot of people itching for a rationalizable reason to use them.
On the other hand, your "Security Force" just set itself up as the ruling class.
Good game libertarians!
So, I think a Libertarian would respond that everyone would be free to own their own guns. So, if you have a dedicated security force that decide to become the ruling class, the unruly mob is also armed and rebel.
What they fail to realise is that any security force would be trained to work as a team and would probably be able to quickly pacify any group of people who didn't have any experience fighting. Maybe if everyone is taught to work as a team? Of course, then that would be a social program and Libertarians are loathe to think about social programs.
They're also pretty loath to work in teams. Who's going to volunteer to put themselves in danger in the middle of a firefight? Better the other guy. They'd have to stop and draw lots to decide who leads the charge or something.
Okay then! The Security Force becomes the ruling class!