Poll: Bioshock's theme?

[Ironic]

This.

I wasn't familiar with Ayn Rand, after looking her up on wiki I can see the connection. In any event bioshock seems to support the notion of her ideas when the society live in a bubble, as in cut off from the world. If anything it supports the idea that religion and charity are bad things that destroy utopias.

According to the game rapture was a utopia that was only possible after throwing out the ideals of charity and religion. This is evident by how they built a city underwater and mastered genetics in the 1950's

It wasn't until atlas started smuggling in bibles and what not that utopia fell apart.

The game felt like propaganda demonizing charity to me for most of the game till the very end even then it gave the impression that they had to give up all the advancements made in rapture in order to be kind

And This

Bioshock's message was simple enough: There are lines that shouldn't be crossed. Also, humans can't be given absolute freedom because we're not ready for it. We're not mature enough to handle it and end up destroying ourselves in bursts of selfishness and egomania.

Personally, I thought it was more on the "Humans are flawed, and so given a flawless world, they will destroy themselves, because a flawless world just, doesn't, fit."

Come to think of it, pretty much exactly what that agent in the first matrix says about the first attempt at the matrix being a heaven, and no one accepting it.

Thats what Bioshock was to me

I also liked the question it raised on why we blindly follow orders in games, and whether we DO truly know the morally "right" side, though.