What would you do?

[Sulkdodds]

Revolution, but secretly and not going-out-and-throwing-molotovs-ively if possible.

Actually, no.
I'm not entirely sure. Because revolutions rarely accomplish anything. I'd be terrified that what I was doing would end up making things worse.

So I guess I'd be a rebel sympathiser - certainly, when it came to the pinch, I'd give shelter to them rather than rat out someone to the bastards going around killing people - but I'd rather not say to myself 'I completely agree with this cause'.

Then again all this is made in the assumption that the 'evil' people are, in this case, just as bad as things appear. That they really are just going around being oppressive and blowing people up.

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

Do half the votes for Revolution actually have any logical backing for their choice? You're attacking your fellow countrymen with almost no cause and just killing innocents.

 

[Angry Lawyer]

They're all making the assumption that, suddenly, our governments are actually the Combine.

Numbers never stated what the cause for the uprising was. Would you still support such an uprising against your government if its grounding was "lets kick out [ethnic minority] from our country". I mean, it's happened before, and UN peacekeepers/James Blunt get sent in.

-Angry Lawyer

 

[Hectic Glenn]

haha! Your all beautiful, your beautiful itsssss true! *Instant world peace*

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

They're all making the assumption that, suddenly, our governments are actually the Combine.

Numbers never stated what the cause for the uprising was. Would you still support such an uprising against your government if its grounding was "lets kick out [ethnic minority] from our country". I mean, it's happened before, and UN peacekeepers/James Blunt get sent in.

-Angry Lawyer

That didn't happen in the timeline he provided, I'm going strictly based off major events he listed. Other things happening obviously would shape my actions based on what they are.

 

[Angry Lawyer]

haha! Your all beautiful, your beautiful itsssss true! *Instant world peace*

James Blunt used to be a UN Peacekeeper, and has been shot more times than 50 Cent.

-Angry Lawyer

 

[15357]

^ I thought 50 cent was lying.........


btw, I didn't elaborate on purpose.

 

[the_rebel_medic]

Join the army as a medic of course!

 

[K e r b e r o s]

Pussies embrace the status quo.

Pussies embrace safety via the military.

Revolution ftw.

You'd be the very person we'd see on the evening knews dragging a pregnant women out by her hair out into the middle of the street to beat and kill her.

Sad.

 

[Ludah]

You'd be the very person we'd see on the evening knews dragging a pregnant women out by her hair out into the middle of the street to beat and kill her.

Sad.

They do make better screams.

 

[K e r b e r o s]

So I guess I'd be a rebel sympathiser - certainly, when it came to the pinch, I'd give shelter to them rather than rat out someone to the bastards going around killing people - but I'd rather not say to myself 'I completely agree with this cause'.

You'd give shelter to someone who just raped and killed an entire family for the sake of they're own political gratifications?

Thats a shame. But I'm not suprised either.

They do make better screams.

You're just afraid of being powerless. The conditions of this world frighten you, but would you go beyond just being a sheep?

 

[Ludah]

I think you got the wrong idea about my first post. I was being facetious. =\

 

[Que-Ever]

I think you got the wrong idea about my first post. I was being facetious. =\

Bathroom's down the hall, on the right.

 

[Azner]

To me protesting does not do much, only ppl shouting and government ignoring... revolution is the best scenario here as that would give more action and much more uprise.

 

[Sulkdodds]

You'd give shelter to someone who just raped and killed an entire family for the sake of they're own political gratifications?

lol, yes, because that's what I said.

CLUE: No it isn't.

EDIT: The possibility that you will start arguing that actually it is exactly what I said is a large one and so I'll cut the ****ing middleman and explain now. I said that I would sympathise more with rebels - provided they were not striking indiscriminately at civilian targets - more than the government, who appear to be beating up random minority groups that they don't like (explicitly stated in the OP). What I did not say was that this would mean I would support any old bastard as long as they were a rebel - and certainly not that I would give shelter to "someone who just raped and killed an entire family" (a function of rebellion not mentioned in the OP. Not mentioned anywhere, in fact. What the hell?). What I did say,m explicitly, is that I was aware of the horrors that revolution and insurgency can lead to. What I did not say is that I would endorse them for the sake of political upheaval. Yes, I would be damn careful of saying 'I wholeheartedly support the government/the rebels" because of guaranteed moral ambiguity. "In a pinch" - the means, if forced to choose between the authority that's running APCs over schoolgirls and the rebellion which Numbers has only mentioned killing soldiers (assuming that they are not the same people as the terrorists who are attacking elementary schools etc - which is a fair conclusion to come to, I think) then I would likely choose the rebels.

If the revolutionaries were going around raping, killing, indiscriminately blowing up buses full of their own country's people and generally being bastards, I would not support them any more than their authoritarian counterparts. But nobody stated they were. As others in this thread have pointed out the iffyness of believing, as AL said, that "the government has suddenly turned into the Combine," then I must point out the iffyness of believing that the rebels have suddenly become slavering bastards when it was in no way implied in the original post.

If you're trying to make a point about human nature or 'giving shelter' to them when they might have committed atrocities, you can apply that to both sides.

Stop making gross straw men to skull-f*ck with your inflatable "oh, you would say that, what a shame, I'm not surprised" superiority penis. Thankyouverymuch.

 

[Angry Lawyer]

'xactly. What if the insurgents were Religious Fundamentalists who wanted to purge the world of science and force a country into a Theocracy? Or right-wingers who want to kill all ethnic minorities? Considering the number of racists I've met in England, I can see this happening.

Don't instantly side with a rebellion - they don't always do it for just reasons.

-Angry Lawyer