It’s hardly a “theory” so much as your average PUA scum’s gimmick.
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I’ll admit to a youthful dalliance with libertarianism. As a pragmatic adult, however, I’ve come to believe that there are not an insignificant number of areas needing government oversight. Food safety is one. Many years ago I knew a woman who worked as a restaurant inspector here in Vancouver. After six months on the job she could no longer bring herself to eat out … and that was in a world with government regulation. One look at http://www.vch.ca/your-environment/food-safety/restaurant-closures/restaurant-closures makes me wonder what an inspection-free restaurant industry would be like? The phrase “gastrointestinal roulette” comes to mind.
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I think it goes like this: people eat in and live off their garden, save their pennies, the economy collapses, and they all meet up in Galt’s Gultch.
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Good point, I remember some of the glazes in ceramics were toxic, but wasn’t a concern for the art work as you didn’t eat off it. I remember copper stuff in metal smithing you couldn’t use for food either unless you did something to it.
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And in Galt’s Gulch they will smoke cigarettes with a gold band and a dollar sign stamped on the side. Hear those coughs? They’re the sound of Freedom!
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That site ruined my favourite sushi restaurant for me about 15 years ago. Defrosting salmon on the floor in the employee bathroom? Done and done.
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I would point out that, if you watch the video of the 2016 Libertarian National Convention (yes, there was one), that there was real argument about the necessity of driver’s licenses.
To Gary Johnson’s credit, he was pro-license.
Though, in 2016, this argument should only be coming up with regards to autonomous vehicles.
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I remember Mass Effect 2 as the game where my hero ended up having to collaborate with a Nazi terrorist organisation in order to save the galaxy. So far so good, but why did my character have to be friends with them?
Here I am, working together with people who voluntarily joined a racist, xenophobic terrorist organisation, and the dialogue options I get with them range from “be a good friend” to “flirt with them”. Once I even got to mention politics, and say that I’m “not quite comfortable” with working for a racist, xenophobic terrorist organisation. But that went nowhere, and my character ended up nodding and smiling at the friendly nazi terrorist again. I felt unclean playing that game.
Basically, I’ve lost any trust in anything political coming from BioWare.
I might still buy their entertainment, though.
(Edit: fixed quote attribution)
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I think the trouble is that bioware didn’t explain the cereberus philosophy very well, instead going on about dominance and such.
I like to think that competition is inevitable between species,
regardless of intent, and chasing an edge isn’t wrong.
The terrorism thing isn’t cool though.
That is… interesting, to say the least.
Alien species might be so alien that cooperation is impossible. This might be a reasonable position for a Hard SF universe, but not for a space opera full of friendly smiling humanoid aliens. These aliens are no more different than different cultures on Earth.
“Competition between races is inevitable. Chasing an edge isn’t wrong.”
Wrap that into violent rhetoric full of words like “dominance”, add the willingness to do “what is necessary”, including violence, to achieve your goals. Add a disdain for democratic institutions and a strong leader. Stir constantly. Voilà, you’ve got national socialism.
So now I’m thinking, what’s going on here?
My Austrian-built Nazi Detector is not only triggered by this, it’s maxed out.
And yet the reasonable people at Bioware somehow thought that the option to “mildly disapprove” while collaborating was enough. And here you are, another reasonable person, remarking that the philosophy hasn’t been “explained well” but that the “terrorism thing isn’t cool”.
Apparently, the Nazi Detector you and Bioware using is not showing a particularly high reading. Which I somehow fail to understand.
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I’m not saying that it isn’t designed well. Not at all. Perhaps “design” is the word I should have used?
Of course cooperation is possible, but sidestepping the nazi thing, competition is inevitable. Full stop. Two tribes, nations, people meet, they will align but not merge. Competition rarely becomes violent, but it’s what happens: Corporations vie for market share; individuals compete for jobs, status; Cultures bloom or fade out as they are replaced; it’s mostly beyond our control and it’s one of the pillars that holds the world up.
Also, “national socialism” is the wrong word; the nazis were using socialism as a mask to conceal their insanity, under which was another mask called “fascism”, which concealed even more insane totalitarianism because ultimately, the only people not destined to be slaves under their regime was the party’s ruling classes.
cough you mean the shortest distance, as seeded by the previous building designs?
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No! We destroyed all university buildings prior to building this example campus.
The correct solution is to pave all visible ground space between buildings!
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Hence why most feel “Libertarian” in the US is a word as tainted as the plate. Cato and the other Kochian thinktanks ensure that libertarians of any stripe have no positive effects on our political system.
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