NationStates

Darzog · Post by **Darzog** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 9:29 am

[QUOTE=Lestat]I can't get a link directly to a region... If anyone knows how to do it, let me now.[/QUOTE]
Region

Try that. The only problem is that the NS site uses frames, so this link won't give you your country's menu bar on the left.

EDIT: Changed link. Original was still keeping some of my login info and trying to direct through my cookies. This is from a different browser that has never logged in before so it should be clean.

Juniper · Post by **Juniper** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 11:02 am

Officially moved....is there gonna be a block party?

:laugh:

Fiona · Post by **Fiona** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 3:15 pm

Does anybody know what the regional influence categories are and what they mean? Templebar is an eminence grise and would like to stay that way

Lestat · Post by **Lestat** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 3:23 pm

[QUOTE=Fiona]Does anybody know what the regional influence categories are and what they mean? Templebar is an eminence grise and would like to stay that way

[/QUOTE]Depends on the length of your stay, number of endorsments and maybe also when you arrived.

Darzog · Post by **Darzog** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 3:31 pm

The Issue

A top fertility clinic has recently announced a new service allowing parents to create so-called 'designer babies'.

The Debate

1. "Embryo selection isn't really genetic engineering in the technical sense," explains Dr. George W. Summers, owner of the Babies-2-Go Clinic. "It's more like being able to have a dozen abortions per month until you get the foetus you desire. I can't really see what's wrong with parents who can afford it being able to eliminate foetuses with undesirable genetic traits - like stupidity."

2. "Thou shalt pay for thy sins!" screams Jack Frederickson, waving a crucifix. "This is just meddling with the sanctity of life. If these children are to be born with horrible defects then it's God's will and who are we to question it? This technology must be banned at once!"

3. "This technology shows promise," muses Melbourne Mombota, minister of health. "But we can't trust the private sector with the future of our nation's children. We must place it under strict government regulation, so that we only screen out embryos with serious genetic conditions."

4. "This has got me thinkin'," says General Buffy Steele, thumbing through a big folder marked 'X'. "If this technology lets us reduce genetic defects, then couldn't it work the other way? We could create ourselves an army of genetically superior soldiers! With our army of Super Soldiers, no nation would dare stand in our way!"

I actually thought option #1 was going to be the sensible one out of this batch. ProLife/Choice aside that is just so totally wrong.

Lestat · Post by **Lestat** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 3:36 pm

That screams "Ignore!" to me like few issues I've seen before.

Damuna_Nova · Post by **Damuna_Nova** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 3:38 pm

[QUOTE=Lestat]That screams "Ignore!" to me like few issues I've seen before.[/QUOTE]

Nah, number three's a good'un.

Darzog · Post by **Darzog** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 3:40 pm

I'm trying not to dominate my people too much. I did dismiss it by the way.

Damuna_Nova · Post by **Damuna_Nova** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 3:43 pm

[QUOTE=Darzog]I'm trying not to dominate my people too much. I did dismiss it by the way.[/QUOTE]

Three means that serious genetic problems are removed.

Lestat · Post by **Lestat** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 3:50 pm

[QUOTE=Damuna_Nova]Three means that serious genetic problems are removed.

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Three means that what the governments judges to be serious genetic problems are removed, whether the parents agree or not. There is a difference.

Fiona · Post by **Fiona** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 3:52 pm

Aye. Dismiss is the only way, IMO

Darzog · Post by **Darzog** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 4:00 pm

Three means the government will be regulating your reproductive habits. And even as much as I would like to make parenting require a license, that's too much government control.

Ravager · Post by **Ravager** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 4:01 pm

Oh, I moved into your little Symistan....

Fiona · Post by **Fiona** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 4:21 pm

[QUOTE=Ravager]Oh, I moved into your little Symistan....

[/QUOTE]

Our little Symistan, surely?

Chimaera182 · Post by **Chimaera182** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 9:33 pm

I so did the fourth one. Viva la despotism!

Darzog · Post by **Darzog** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 5:48 am

The Issue

Due to the ongoing wars in neighboring countries, a recent rash of illegal immigrants have been caught at the borders of Belzodaine, prompting many citizens to call for tighter immigration laws.

The Debate

1. Jean-Paul Mombota of the Belzodaine National Purity League says "These illegal aliens are just an eyesore with their strange customs and funny languages. Uneducated immigrants like these only worsen crime and steal valuable jobs! I say we should boot them all out on their ears and put a big fence around the country!"

2. Freddy Christmas of the Belzodaine Civil Liberties Union says "We must welcome these refugees from any nation into our open arms, they are fleeing one oppressive dictatorial regime in the only way they know, we must not let them think they're jumping from the frying pan into the fire!"

3. "Hold on there, hold on people!" says Naki Utopia of the Belzodaine Broadcasting company, "We don't have to take either extreme, all we have to do is make a TV game show out of it! We put deadly obstacles on the border and monitor it with television cameras! Those that make it across win freedom and citizenship, and those who don't, well, lets just say that our buzzards won't starve. We could call it 'Who Wants to be an Immigrant?'!"

OK, who can't play nice? Now that we all know our neighbors I was hoping to get away from these little border disputes, but with some SYMians being Canadian I guess it was inevitable. So who's sending their refugees to me?

That being said, I LOVE the reality game show idea. Not that I would ever do it, but it's a great show of creativity by whoever made the issue.

Vicsun · Post by **Vicsun** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 7:52 am

This game presents such horrible dilemmas! I could ban Harry Potter but then I'd be appeasing religious wackos.

I wish there was a "ban Harry Potter but replace it with the Satanic Bible" option. That way everyone'd be unhappy.

Damuna_Nova · Post by **Damuna_Nova** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 7:53 am

[QUOTE=Vicsun]I wish there was a "ban Harry Potter but replace it with the Satanic Bible" option. That way everyone'd be unhappy.[/QUOTE]

LMAO!

I have no idea how I manage to be first on today's thing, I'm pretty sure I scorned policing.

Vicsun · Post by **Vicsun** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 7:55 am

[QUOTE=Damuna_Nova]I have no idea how I manage to be first on today's thing, I'm pretty sure I scorned policing.

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I have the least political freedom and the least police.

My followers are docile sheep!

Damuna_Nova · Post by **Damuna_Nova** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 7:56 am

[QUOTE=Vicsun]I have the least political freedom and the least police.

My followers are docile sheep![/QUOTE]

Haha, dictator?