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Post by mrgametheory on Sept 24, 2006 14:35:54 GMT -5
Here we are, the brilliant minds of Civ 4, the best of the best, able to dominate our opponents in the most intellectually demanding and strategic video game ever made, with around 2 million copies sold world wide. Of those 2 million the greatest minds have come to battle each other on this ladder. So In an address to those people, I have two questions for you. 1) What form of government and economic system do you currently believe is the best one? Its fine if its idealistic, or perfect in theory, or whatever, all ideas matter. You can bend it to a current one of form your own, but what do you honestly believe is the way the world should run itself? 2) What do you believe in terms of religion or science? Are you simply agnostic and don't put thought into it, or do you rack your brain trying to find order and understanding? Do you believe certain things will happen when you die? Do you believe there are certain rules or laws to the universe outside what science has currently defined, and if so what are they? Just something to rack your brains about it you find yourself board on the message board
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Post by notagoodname on Sept 24, 2006 19:34:11 GMT -5
1) Best form of goverment in the economic sense is capitalism with intervention only where capitalism fails. So you let businesses do their thing, if a monopoly forms or if there is a need for something that won't make private companies money (fire brigade) then the government steps in and assumes the role. In the choice of leadership the best form would be a democracy without political parties. Without political parties there will never be an absolute majority in power as every individual will be able to vote the way they want on every issue. Currently members of the Republican and Democrat parties in the US are forced to vote the way their leaders want them to (or face expulsion from their party). In order to remove the need for political parties you have to have elections on a local level only. That way people actually end up personally knowing who they are voting for. The local elected members then go on and vote for the president/prime minister. British style governments work well without having direct elections for the prime ministers, in fact i think our leaders generally end up being better than the USAs (nyah nyah nyah ). 2) Religion should be used to explain phenomina that isn't understood. It has been this way for a long time. The ancient people all over the world had a god for everything they didn't understand (god of sun,moon,wind etc.). Religion is almost like science, except it cannot be tested, so just keep in mind if science and religion contradict always side with science. The fact the universe formed from absolute nothingness is unexplained by science and will be unexplained for a long time if ever (as in there were once no dimensions in space and time, nothing at all, even less than a singularity that led to the big bang). An outside influence is a somewhat reasonable explanation for how a universe came out of absolute nothingness. Although if science finds an explanation i will beleive it. Of course when religion gets really specific it becomes stupid. I won't tease any specific belief here but religious texts in general have stuff in them that we know isn't true. These books once tried to explain something that wasn't understood, now we do understand thanks to science. The deaths caused by beleifs in these books are pointless. So what if your book says one thing and theirs says another? There is unfortunatly nothing you can do to stop people beleiving in these books, if you take it away from them the violence will be worse than ever. The best you can do is get the various beleivers of the books to accept each others beleifs. The plan hasn't worked so far but i think eventually given enough education religions will be able to tolerate each other. In wealthy and educated nations we have tolerance forming, especially amonst those born and raised in the wealthy and well-educated nations. So there is hope religion can be made to be harmless.
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Post by tommynt on Sept 25, 2006 8:14:24 GMT -5
1) in fact i think that a well planned form of communism d be best in terms of overall pleasure. Capitalism leads to this stupid system that 20% work 100 hours a week or so while 20% others dont work at all. Thats just dumb and both groups arent really happy with that. I think a very well planed world economy d easily be able to produce same goods as are produced now with like half of worktime. The only thing which stops this from working is peoples egoism and overpopulation in 3rd world countires
2) even sientists figure that something must have started this universe and the chance that all phisical rules are like that that there are galaxies which makes livable planats possible are like 1/100000000000 so it s somehow quite possible that some power, name it whatever u want created these rules, maybe the power is just luck but maybe some1 did help the luck.
When i think about universe i allways got this picture from such a snowballfalling glass ( this glass with water in and some stuff lokking like snow) which is in hands of some giants who play around with it, bit childish maybe
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Post by MMV on Sept 25, 2006 9:40:14 GMT -5
The USA is not a "true" democracy, but a Republic (form of government) which uses the principles of democracy for equal representation.
the USA does not use "capitalism" as it's economic system, it uses free enterprise via a "supply and demand" market which is based on a free market where the consumers and goods sold drive the businesses to meet the market demand.
capitalism is not a "form" of government, but the result of private business
our constitution doesn't tell you that you have to practice the same religious principles as everyone else, but only that you have the right to practice any religious principles you choose (as long as it doesn't mitigate the rights of others)
There's never been a "Church of America"
Is there still a "Church of England?"
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Post by Bantams on Sept 25, 2006 9:54:52 GMT -5
Is there still a "Church of England? Yes
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Post by MMV on Sept 25, 2006 13:50:49 GMT -5
Is there still a "Church of England? Yes ah... the basis of so much conflict throughout history.
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Post by whitebull on Sept 26, 2006 17:35:57 GMT -5
1) I cannot imagine that humans will still choose someone to think instead of us in 2000 years We will vote all issues by ourself. Never forget that a 8 years-old bad scholar of today knows more things than Aristote. Some call it anarchy, we could also call it true democracy 2) I don't believe in any god. And I don't understand how others could (even if I agree to let them live, don't misunderstand me )
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