Board 8 > I got a quick hypothetical for you: Save millions of lives/the human race...

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I'd do it. I wouldn't be completely reviled by everyone; in 50 years maladjusted teenagers will praise me to piss off their parents.

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His view on utopia sounds like it comes from "careful-what-you-wish-for" stories in cartoons.

In other words, things that comment not on actual utopias but of a society where people are unnecessarily nice or polite at the cost of honesty or individualistic desires.

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...why wouldn't they be able to create. like, there's no fundamental reason why they couldn't. if it's a utopia then they have any of the necessary means to do it.

and if that's an argument of personal drive, then.. again, why wouldn't they be able to create. you have people who are happy. happy people like to make things. happy people with free time make a lot of things (to be fair, the main qualifier is free time, but it's natural that, if you like doing something, you'll do more of it) - that's, quite literally, how the internet got to its current form. you'd have a constantly trying to improve situation.

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From: SantaRPidgey | Posted: 6/14/2012 11:27:11 PM | #050

would people be able to invent in a world without conflict?

Yes, granted most advancements are due to military projects, advancements would still happen. I forget where I read it, but someone theorized that when the world is ready for a technology, multiple people come to be inventing that at the same time in different places around the world.

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His view on utopia sounds like it comes from "careful-what-you-wish-for" stories in cartoons.

Like "See Me, Feel Me, Gnomey" from Powerpuff Girls?

From: TheRock1525 | Posted: 6/14/2012 11:00:06 PM | #040

So basically, the storyline of Code Geass

Never seen it, but from what I just read on Wikipedia, yeah.

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well, the backbone of that theory would probably be related to arrows or the pyramids. neither has any logical reason to why they existed across multiple areas in similar times that should've been completley incapable of contact.

but even beyond that, just... what we're using to communicate here. sure, the internet was made by the military but who's been pushing it forward to the point where it has? scientists, researchers, programmers. not all were 'good people' i'm sure, but most probably were, and we're talking about some professions that you have to have the personal drive and desire to do.

you can say the same with NASA and space exploration. military drove it heavily for a while, but in the past 30 years the biggest moves haven't been for a militaristic purpose or bigger dick contest, it's been people trying to know more about what's out there. simple, basic curiousity.

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From: MarvelousGerbil | #035

Sounds like The Boss.

I was just gonna say!

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From: RayDyn | #034

I guess if that's the monstrous thing you want to do, sure. I was thinking more along the lines of doing something so monstrous that people set aside their differences and helped each other to solve the worlds problems, the end result being something like TNG human society. I guess in one sense the end result is the same, a change in the way people think, only I was thinking it would be a willing change by the individual.

Kinda reminds me of the plot of Watchmen.

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1) yes but only because it would be awesome to have that kind of reputation
2) no; wars and intolerance are good things

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