I still don't see how one can hold this position and still play any 4X game.
I dont play against the AI. I play against friends (or one of the cats) and we practice strict Geneva Convention policies. You want to attack a colony? send in Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
What is your opinion of the "appropriateness" of the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement {link}?[/QB] [/quote]
This is not genocide. This is a matter of free will. If people wish not to reproduce, that is their decision. Unfortunately, quite a lot of people (and I am thinking of computer geeks here (carving out Geo "Da Squirrel" from Dayton , Ohio who we know for a computer geek to be a sexual tyrannosauraus) don't get to decide whether they get to reprodcue or not
. If they choose to exercise this right as they believe it will help reduce global population pressures, that is their decision too.
Again, this is not genocide by any definition of the term (and I have checked the United Nations and public international law definitions before I said this).
As a humourous aside, vive la France is all I can say. A few years ago, the French government was concerned about the national population shrinking. The birthrate was very low and their cunning plan to combat this was to get the state television station to show, ahem, naughty movies late on Friday night to ahem, get people in the mood. Lo and behold, ante-natal classes all over France are chockablock in no time at all..
Now, I believe us English have the problem that although our population is shrinking, it is not shrinking fast enough. I am worried that Tony Blair and the idiots in Parliament will decide that like the French, mood inducing television may help out this problem. Instead of surgically enhanced blarts doing 'their thang' on TV, we are going to get late night programmes showing really ugly people rubbing themselves in chip-fat and doing exciting things like mowing the lawn...
I live in fear
[ July 23, 2002, 10:24: Message edited by: Growltigga ]