Would YOU live in Rapture?

[Jacco]

Given the state of the world and Andrew Ryan's rather extreme and not-so-secret views on politics, could you live in a society like that?

I am undecided. In some ways it seems like the closest thing to a utopian society. On the other, that can (and did in the game) lead to some very bad things.

Now, would you kindly reply? ;D

 

[ScrubberDucky]

Not particularly. Ignoring the claustrophobic and easily-breached natural defenses of the city, being with such a small group of people in a self-contained, unreachable city would make me feel constantly unsafe.

Although I'd be flattered if they asked.

 

[Febel]

Are we talking pre or post war rapture? I 'd like to live in pre war rapture, yeah.

 

[Mallefunction]

I doubt I'd be smart enough to get an invitation to go live down with the "greatest minds the century has to offer", but if I was given an invite for pre-war Rapture...probably.

Two weeks later, I'd be another corpse floatin' with the fishies XD

 

[Zacharious-khan]

if i didn't know that it would end up the setting for Bioshock and sadder still bioshock 2 then yes.

 

[cryogeist]

I'm sorry but i like my community Murderer and drug free

 

[Zorak the Mantis]

Nope, I like being able to see the sky and walk on dirt too much.

 

[LongAndShort]

I find the very concepts upon which Rapture was founded to be unachievable and unrealistic, and would have been one of those people saying "Told you so!" when it all went to hell. Would have expected a communist/religious uprising rather than Plasmids driving everyone crazy, but hey, hindsight's 20/20.

I also like seeing sky when I look out the window.

 

[LobsterFeng]

Would I live in a city cut off from all other civilizations, with vending machines filled with guns? No.

 

[Sgt. Grub]

If invited in the time frame of the Rapture-verse? Yes, I would. Probably to escape WW2 and anything afterwards.

 

[Pibb Omega]

oh hell no, there's crazy people down there man.

 

[Hamish Durie]

well yeah although it would be for the weekend or mabye a week you know splice myself up then leg it

 

[legion431]

Yeah, I'd just wait until the shit hits the fan and then I'd jack up on all my stored plasmids and have some fun.

 

[Ghengis John]

I doubt I'd be smart enough to get an invitation to go live down with the "greatest minds the century has to offer",

Awwww that was all just Ryan's propaganda. He probably considered anyone who wanted to live his vision enough to leave the world behind as a superior creature, a cut above the rest, lord knows all the dockworkers and call girls of that place weren't also theoretical physicists. Though the place would be doomed. And even if we're not talking rapture itself, that kind of society is going to tear itself apart eventually anyhow. Any society which makes no account for disenfranchisement will.

So my answer is going to be no.

Nope, too gay. =/

Looking at mister "plinkety plink" I don't think that was a problem in Rapture.

 

[Fieldy409_v1legacy]

im surprised how many people are saying yes. remember all that talk about 'the parasite'? andrew was referring to people who want money or help from another person. So that means if they had a workplace accident down there disabled people who cant work are screwed cause they cant afford medicine or even food. minimum wage laws dont exist either, and wed probably all be part of the opressed labour force if we really did live there.

 

[Zhukov]

Citizens are never allowed to leave, they have to pay for oxygen and the toilet stalls have parking meters on them.

...

No thanks, I'm good.

 

[tthor]

Andrew Ryan believes that capitalism in its purest form will always prevail, but what he fails to see is that there are many people who are absolute manipulative pricks who will do anything to get what they want, and screw over everybody else in the process. in the end, pure unregulated capitalism will almost always turn into a kleptocracy at some point

 

[minimacker]

Oh, yeah. Free of all restraint, I'd totally live there. It's a synergy of Communism and Capitalism, a self-sustaining city of complete science and imagination.

You know, except for the whole catastrophe.

 

[Nouw]

No. I'd rather live in my comfortable world.

 

[6_Qubed]

You know, even before the whole place went to shit, it was still pretty bad. Oh sure, if you had scads of money everything was just peachy keen... until you spent up all your money at the hospital because fuck health care, that stuff's for hippies and parasites! Or instead, you threw your inheritance into seed money to start up a new business... that tanks after about five other companies are created that do the exact same thing as you but do it a few degrees better. So now that you're broke and can't turn to family for support because you moved to the bottom of the fucking ocean without telling them, (REAL SMART THERE BY THE WAY) you're going to be left with no choice but to be a toilet scrubber, treated like crap by all those other guys who still have their money, because Ryan actually encourages that way of thinking. You might as well be in Double America at that point, so to bring this whole answer laboriously back on topic, no. No, I do not want to live in Double America. Regular-strength America is screwing me over just fine, thanks.