This, unlike my penultimate post [my last post was a glowing recitiation of all I liked about this board which nobody read], was not a critique, merely some thoughts I had on crime and space.
You know, you guys are making it sound like the criminals of Fenspace aren't really all that bad. Kind of like the Sharks and the Jets.
Operation GREAT Justice, right. Not that I didn't know, just couldn't remember it.
Firstly: guns. With all the American, libertarian, survivalist and post-apocalyptic, and military sci-fi fans around, I have a hard time believing that people wouldn't try to weaponize their cars, ships, etc. If you guys say no, okay. But why?
Not even a monoculture is really a monoculture and trying to get even 50% of people to agree on something is like trying to herd cats [not that I've ever herded cats, but I hear that it's hard]. Especially something that is so tied in with ideas of self-defense, self-reliance, the "frontier spirit", etc. etc. [Not really a gun guy so don't know all the arguments for them].
As for drugs, I have comparitively little problem with thinking that there's little DEMAND for them. Although all this talk of 'light' drugs makes me wonder what Nancy Reagan would say, particularly as all the toked-up reefer fiends aren't immediately going straight for a speedball injection in the eye while eating a baby.
[By the way, where would meth fall in this discussion, vis a vis difficulty of manufacture and demand. I would imagine that like other people in high stress situations there'd be an impulse to take stimulants for that added 'edge'. Flying around in space, particularly for long hours, should probably qualify at least some of the time.]
As for slaves and cramped quarters.
Um.
There's, uh, there's more uses for slavery than just as labor. Sad to say.
Anyway, a lot of these thoughts came about from thinking of handwavium as a means for distributed production, a sort of direct form of manufacture. People being both literally and economically the source of capital. As well as thinking about the sheer volume of space in our solar system.
Once again: not a critique, just some thoughts thrown your way to see what comes of it.
-murmur
You know, you guys are making it sound like the criminals of Fenspace aren't really all that bad. Kind of like the Sharks and the Jets.
Operation GREAT Justice, right. Not that I didn't know, just couldn't remember it.
Firstly: guns. With all the American, libertarian, survivalist and post-apocalyptic, and military sci-fi fans around, I have a hard time believing that people wouldn't try to weaponize their cars, ships, etc. If you guys say no, okay. But why?
Not even a monoculture is really a monoculture and trying to get even 50% of people to agree on something is like trying to herd cats [not that I've ever herded cats, but I hear that it's hard]. Especially something that is so tied in with ideas of self-defense, self-reliance, the "frontier spirit", etc. etc. [Not really a gun guy so don't know all the arguments for them].
As for drugs, I have comparitively little problem with thinking that there's little DEMAND for them. Although all this talk of 'light' drugs makes me wonder what Nancy Reagan would say, particularly as all the toked-up reefer fiends aren't immediately going straight for a speedball injection in the eye while eating a baby.
[By the way, where would meth fall in this discussion, vis a vis difficulty of manufacture and demand. I would imagine that like other people in high stress situations there'd be an impulse to take stimulants for that added 'edge'. Flying around in space, particularly for long hours, should probably qualify at least some of the time.]
As for slaves and cramped quarters.
Um.
There's, uh, there's more uses for slavery than just as labor. Sad to say.
Anyway, a lot of these thoughts came about from thinking of handwavium as a means for distributed production, a sort of direct form of manufacture. People being both literally and economically the source of capital. As well as thinking about the sheer volume of space in our solar system.
Once again: not a critique, just some thoughts thrown your way to see what comes of it.
-murmur