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Yup, this seems to be a very real game. Bum Simulator [Steam] is a game that's going to turn a few heads, with it [showing] off life as a homeless person. It could end up being a little controversial too, I'm sure a few people will have some interesting opinions on this one.
I'm not sure what to make of it, as it looks mildly amusing, but it makes me feel a little weird. Can't be much worse than the thousands of other violent games we have I suppose and highlights the issues some people have to go through. A modern-life survival sim? Could be interesting.
In a sane forum it should be entirely possible to have an interesting and rational discussion on the sociological statement and implications of this game. That just wouldn't be our style though, would it?
Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/bum-simulator-will-simulate-life-as-a-homeless-person.11751
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Monday May 14 2018, @08:14PM (1 child)
How smart does someone have to be to lift themselves out of those kind of beliefs if they want to exit them? There seems to be this weird "we have to life with Islam and support Islam and then we can all get along" but this is absent with the more historically western religions. I think it might be a good idea how to find common ground with Catholics/etc that appear to be non-violent currently and see if this can extend to other religious sects later on. If we don't agree to disagree and establish boundaries than the only option is for self segregation or for the various groups to burn eachother out. When it comes to issues like this, at least in regards to the American religious, is an expansion of the separation of church and state to include some levels of morality. You can still do something about murder/theft/rape if you want in regards to property rights if you don't want to legislate on moral principles and handle abortion/gay rights with full legality but zero government funding. When thinking about this another issue will be that tax exempt non-profits are taxpayer supported, so maybe you need companies that fund abortions to be taxed corporations to maintain the separation. On the other hand it would mean various gun lobbies that are non-profits would also have to deal with the same restrictions. Eliminate the opposition of religious people to gay marriage by abolishing the institution of marriage and instead have people file taxes as business partnerships, this allows the religious to maintain the integrity of their marriages at the church level and enables gay folks to get married by any group willing to perform a ceremony.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday May 14 2018, @08:32PM
Sometimes I think it's not a matter of intelligence so much as a matter of humility. It's probably some of both.
Your ideas are basically how I'd go about doing this. I'd actually be fine with the idea of religious types getting a monopoly on the word "marriage" so long as my girlfriend and I could get "civilly unionized" and have all the *secular* benefits of marriage, as visitation rights, taxation brackets, etc.
Thing is, for the real religions nuts, that is *not* on the table. They don't hold with the civil authority being free from the religious one; separation of church and state is blasphemous to them because, after all, it's all God's property, isn't it? They'll stop at nothing less than theocracy, and they don't care who or what has to be sacrificed for it, including the very nation itself ("either God rules this country or there isn't a country to rule"). We're seeing this now, even, with Pence as VP and Bolton and Pompeo in such positions of foreign-policy power. Aren't you following what's going on with the embassy in Jerusalem?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...