Would YOU live in Rapture?
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To be completely honest, it didn't even seem like a very nice place before everyone went kill-crazy. Before it was anarchic it was totalitarian. You just kept quiet for fear of Ryan's thought police crashing down on you as a Bible smuggler, or a Fontaine supporter, etc. And Heaven help you if you dared to speak out, or try to leave.
No, I wouldn't live in Rapture. But I think it'd be a mutual feeling cause I'm not one of the cultural or intellectual elite anyway
No, I wouldn't live in Rapture. But I think it'd be a mutual feeling cause I'm not one of the cultural or intellectual elite anyway
Probably not, I'm not a big fan of being hit in the head with a wrench while I try to nick potato chips from a corpse.
Also I think there would be all sorts of problems with rising damp.
Also I think there would be all sorts of problems with rising damp.
same here. Rapture had problems BEFORE everyone went nuts and they stemmed from the location and isolation.ScrubberDucky said:
No, I would not live in rapture. I would ascend to the Heaven to be with my Jesus after the dead in Christ have risen first, while all the sinners await their punish-
Sorry, I couldn't keep that up.
How many people on here have no idea who Ayn Rand is?
Sorry, I couldn't keep that up.
How many people on here have no idea who Ayn Rand is?
We'll there's the asthetics of the place to consider first. Everything looks either like a rusty factory or a Vegas casino.
It would be a permanent headache to live there. It'll prolly smell too.
Social-economically almost everyone was a wage slave. Ryan and his close friends sucked everyone else dry.
Also if I remember the in game lore correctly, there was a constant unfulfilled demand for luxury goods from the surface. Even if you started out rich, it still sucks there.
It's a neon lit hell hole, so no.
It would be a permanent headache to live there. It'll prolly smell too.
Social-economically almost everyone was a wage slave. Ryan and his close friends sucked everyone else dry.
Also if I remember the in game lore correctly, there was a constant unfulfilled demand for luxury goods from the surface. Even if you started out rich, it still sucks there.
It's a neon lit hell hole, so no.
I'd probably get paranoid living underwater with only glass between it and Rapture. The crazy, drugged up people don't help at all either.
If I didn't know how Rapture would end up, then heck yes, I definitely would. I'd go there to be one of the greatest cartoonists of all time, and I'd probably end up doing cartoons for ADAM and what not before I get mugged and killed.
However, knowing how bad Rapture gets, I would definitely say no.
However, knowing how bad Rapture gets, I would definitely say no.
Rapture before the fall? Probably. The place, before Mr. Ryan went crazy, was an elitist society where nothing was illegal. HELL YES.
Afterwards? Ehhh, not so much. I like to keep my sanity and/or blood/major organs.
Afterwards? Ehhh, not so much. I like to keep my sanity and/or blood/major organs.
More or less the same, + I'm a heavy socialist and egalitarian. Needless to say regardless of any skills or abilities I may have, the ideological gap would be unbridgeable.ScrubberDucky said:
"Utopian society?" Are you kidding?
Really? "Utopia" is where everyone treats everyone else solely as resources to be manipulated? Fuck that; I have to put up with that in modern business culture already and I hate it.
What Rand failed to understand is that without ethics (or even her foolish personal "re-interpretation" of ethics and how it relates to capitalism), the necessary cooperation between intellectuals (which Rand's ultimate argument for Utilitarianism depends on) wouldn't last for long; there is simply too much potential for personal advancement to be ignored.
Really? "Utopia" is where everyone treats everyone else solely as resources to be manipulated? Fuck that; I have to put up with that in modern business culture already and I hate it.
What Rand failed to understand is that without ethics (or even her foolish personal "re-interpretation" of ethics and how it relates to capitalism), the necessary cooperation between intellectuals (which Rand's ultimate argument for Utilitarianism depends on) wouldn't last for long; there is simply too much potential for personal advancement to be ignored.