Valerie Valate wrote:Is this the bit where you finally confess to your plans to implant people, to "prevent them from being violent" ?
Saede Riordan > Which is better though?
Saede Riordan > A police for that controls people trough intimidation and threats of physical violence.
Saede Riordan > Or a society where everyone is simply implanted to follow the rules happily?
Saede Riordan > At the end of the day, they are happy, thats difficult to argue with.
Saede Riordan > Why does choice matter? If they are happy, they are happy.
Saede Riordan > The current plan in regards to children is to offer them the choice to be implanted as everyone else once they are old enough, to fully understand the choice.
Saede Riordan > If they refuse, they will be given a second option to be entered into the military and have their harmful desires directed towards those who would harm the nation.
Saede Riordan > And if they do not accept that choice either, they will be given a ticket to a destination of their chosing in the cluster at large, along with a notice to the location they are departing that they may be violent.
Saede Riordan > The choice to harm others is not a choice anyone should be entrusted to.
Saede Riordan > It is all entirely optional, no one is forced to do anything, they are simply required to take certain steps if they wish to exist within the society. Should they not wish to abide the requirements, they are welcome to leave.
Saede Riordan > How is it any different then the sort of indoctrination that any nation performs?
Saede Riordan > All they would feel pressured to do is not harm others, I see that as a perfectly acceptable application of pressure.
Saede Riordan > The slippery slope arguement is a fallacy.
Saede Riordan > It would not be optional if they refused to take the implants Synthia. If they decided to take the implants, they would be welcome to return.
Saede Riordan > Someone could leave and come back should they decide the ways Inside are better.
Saede Riordan > That would not be an option.
Saede Riordan > The military would be implanted Ms. Kernher, just in a different way.
Saede Riordan > Geariven: the implants in this case serve in the case of the police force.
Nation 2.0, now with more implants! hehehehe.