Nationstates

[Laharls_Wrath]

trust me, I do

[Pyro ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ✔]

Last night the respected tabloid TV show "60 Minutes" ran a report on Queen Ally's rising divorce rate. What is happening to the nuclear family?
The Debate

1. "There's a simple solution," says Pastor Felix, of the Catholic Church. "Divorce should be illegal. 'For better or worse,' anyone remember how that goes? We should return to the good old days, when you got married for life and stuck by your partner no matter how much of a drunken, abusive, adulterating disappointment they turned out to be."


2. John Black, author of the hit book, 'Men are from Mars, Women are from Some Whole Other Place,' has a simpler solution. "If couples would just call each other 'darling' once in a while, there would be far fewer relationship breakdowns. A little affection is all it takes. So the government should make it mandatory: call your spouse 'darling' at least once a day, or face a fine."


3. "There's a simple way to boost the marriage rate," says gay rights activist Miranda Silk. "Abolish those arcane laws that discriminate against same-sex marriages. It's obscene to treat people differently because of their sexual preference. Besides, everyone knows gay relationships are more stable than straight ones."

Hmm I'm not sure about this one. I don't agree with number 1.

Number 2 sounds stupid, however if it was a law to make husbands and wives have more sex I'd be up for it.

3 sounds good until the very last comment about being more stable. That guy sounds like a dick.

Meh I'll go for number 2 and pretend it means have sex or get a fine.

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When Fiends Attack!

The Issue

After several reports of pet Fiends violently attacking, injuring, and even killing citizens, there has been growing pressure from public safety activists for the government to take action.

The Debate

1. "These creatures are a danger to the public and must be destroyed!" says Stephanie Falopian, representative of the Public Institution for Social Safety, Equality, and Direction. "I was attacked by one just on the way here and I nearly lost my life! They're a public menace. We must shoot and burn them!"


2. "Why punish the poor things?" asks animal-lover Peggy Hendrikson, covered in scars from previous encounters with Fiends. "All they need is good hands to care and rehabilitate them. We need a government education programme to tame them and turn them into loveable pets. The one I'm holding right now shows that it can be done. They are all good, kind creatures deep d- argh!"


3. "I agree that we shouldn't kill them," says Dave McGuffin, a famous lawyer. "But I don't think the owner should get away with breaking the law! This is clearly a case of 'intent to greviously harm' if I ever saw it. All citizens should be held accountable of their pet's actions as if they had done the act themselves. It's the only way to be fair - after all, they're just dumb animals."


4. "Who cares!?" screams Lars Love as he sends out his pirate radio station broadcast. "Just repeal any laws preventing us from shooting the things when they attack and we'll be able to save ourselves without this stupid, authoritarian, overbearing government and legal system wasting our tax money!"


...I choose none of the above
1. Kill 'em
2. Massive government rehab for pets
3. Retardo-laws
4. Kill 'em

[Tails82]

It's them or you.

[Tails82]

"The right way to do it is to boost government spending by increasing taxes."

The #1 sentence that will make me side against you

[Laharls_Wrath]

The Armed Republic of Krithgal is a small, economically powerful nation, remarkable for its complete absence of social welfare. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 36 million are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The small government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defence, and Religion & Spirituality. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4%. A robust private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, followed by Woodchip Exports and Gambling.

Students are known to arrive at school in their pyjamas, teenagers across the country are celebrating the defeat of a national curfew bill, the government is reining in public spending, and nobody ever seems to enter or leave the armour-plated flying castle that serves as Krithgal's House of Parliament. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is a problem. Krithgal's national animal is the wolf, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the dollar.
>_>

[Tails82]

I solved the youth-related crime by cracking down on those 8 year-old embezzlers. They say I don't have a good educational system but I've got a whole swarm of successful entrepreneurs from a young age with the business smarts to prove it. My only regret is that taxes had to be raised. Where's that privatized police force? Screw privatized beaches, they don't go far enough.

[Laharls_Wrath]

I say up the punishments for crimes, if there's still crime, the punishment isnt severe enough

[Tails82]

The punishment can't be cruel and unusual, and no death penalty. This is a Christian nation.

[Laharls_Wrath]

cruel is subjective, as is unusual

[Tails82]

I don't think public broadcasting is any good but when this is the only option against

"To be honest, I can't see why we should put up with advertising at all," says Chastity Hamilton, an anti-business protester. "All it is is some multi-billionaire or politician somewhere trying to make even more money while the rest of us struggle to make ends meet. I say we ban it. Maybe the economy will suffer a little and some people may lose jobs but that's just a minor side-effect really, especially when you consider that no longer will our children be encouraged to fill themselves with junk-food because some guy on the telly tells them it's cool!"

I can't go for that. Dismissed.

[Chromeo]

Several underground organisations in Shaoyuan have recently been spreading discontent throughout the populace about not being able to vote.

Hmm...

[Pyro ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ✔]

Most extremeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ^___^

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Following new legislation in Ultraporn, there have been reports of people marrying housepets.

[Chromeo]