Mason Wrote:Personally I am one of those that think we will need moderate regulation in place. Using my limited knowledge of political science, a good example would be the US. Started with independent states and very weak federal government, but as history took it's course turned out that we needed stronger federal laws to make all the states, nay the Union, run better.
That's a bad metaphor, as is the UN comparison we've been joking about. You can't make direct comparisons between real life politics and a video game. The United States gave more power to the Federal government out of many complicated socio-economic and political issues that arose along the process of nationhood over two-hundred-some-odd years. If the RPC ever has to make decisions like that then the FFXIV community at large is doing it very, very wrong. Likewise, nations aren't members of the United Nations because they want a place to role play. They're in it for diplomatic purposes that will help further their own countries interest. Should the RPC ever become an organization that is chartered with preventing a world war then I'm probably going to go play another game.
We are not dealing with governments here. We're here for fun. That is the only thing that is going to hold this place together. The minute people stop having fun is the minute the RPC is useless. If you're right, and the RPC needs to start moderating the RP community it will have already been too late. We'll have to have become an organization that will tell people to stop having fun because we have rules about these things, don't you know?
But if we're going to be nation building here, can I be Benjamin Franklin? He was awesome.
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