Got this idea from the thread in Weird News Stories, about educating junkies on how to shoot up safely. I suggested that if I were supreme dictator, I'd be a little more concerned about their wellbeing, and less about their rights.
So, if you could impose your will on the population, what ruthless things would you do for the public's own good? This is not intended to advocate this kind of government, merely to ponder what might be possible if any of us were in a position where there was no higher authority and our word was law.
One that I've said a couple of times while listening to the news or watching a crime show on TV, is that if it were up to me, child pornographers would get a bullet in the back of the head on the spot. Just to clarify, I can see the problems in implementing that, and I don't think I'm ruthless enough to make such a decree if I could, but there is a certain satisfaction in contemplating it. And that's what this exercise is about.
well, if you've ever seen bedazzled you know that things like this are frought with unforseen difficulties. in the new testament, jesus rejected the devils attempts to give him power over the world because the whole nature of christianity is for people to accept on their own salvation not ....
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but really, most of my edicts would be driving related and very brutal.
I'd sit around in my underwear like a lazy slob, watching movies and eating snacks.
Hey, wait a minute, that's what I do NOW.
I'd nuke the entire planet.
I'd make hypocrisy punishable by death. :teddyr:
have world PEACE!
I would like to think i would spend all my time and effort into humanitarian projects. However; the more likely scenario would be the next Caligula.
Quote from: Sister Grace on January 13, 2010, 05:33:43 PM
I would like to think i would spend all my time and effort into humanitarian projects. However; the more likely scenario would be the next Caligula.
Okay. NOW you are starting to frighten me. A little.
Be harder on crime and those who commit crimes.
Try and bring back manners and respect.
All you can eat buffalo wings, naked Wednesdays, speedos banned from being sold to any guy who is as big as I am, reality TV shows banned, and people who appeared on reality TV shot.
I would start by fining anyone that put out Christmas lights (or any holiday lights) that blink out of sync with the rest of the lights.
Order the Keebler Elves to start cranking out Magic Middles again.
Traffic cops inside shopping malls from Nov. 1 to Jan. 2 every year, holding shoppers on foot to the same standard as cars on the road.
I would -
- eliminate the poor to stimulate the economy.
- ban all workplaces from holding more than one meeting a week.
- limit all meetings to 30 minutes
- make Anne Hathaway my chief concubine.
- establish a playoff system for college football.
Honestly, I'd probably start some law that said people over a certain income would have to donate a certain amount of money to charity. I would probably also start that charity, and make sure it actually did what it said with that money. WOuld that would be, I don't know.
It's a tough question. I know for sure that I would make sure Hollywood does NOT release any more Transformers, Pirates of the Caribbean, or Harry Potter films. :teddyr: (OK, maybe they could just finish the Harry Potter series, but definitely no more Transformers.)
Quote from: indianasmith on January 13, 2010, 11:40:25 PM
- make Anne Hathaway my chief concubine.
You'd have to stand in line behind me for that one. :wink:
1. True equality for all races (redneck, tongue kiss that muslim)
2. It is against the law for all kids 8-19 year of age to wear pants half pass the ass or lower. Punishable to just wearing you pants down to the ankles and taking the stairs to the top of the Empire State Building. (Or whatever is the tallest building in your state)
2a. Adults 20 years and older: punishable to the full removal of pants and underwear. And going about your daily business for the maximum 5 years (your older, you should know better).
3. Vegitarian is a four letter word
"IF" i were supreme ruler of the world.... "IF"
silly minion
Oh, you'd all be in for some pretty major tax cuts if I were supreme ruler. We'd have a one party political system, composed of me and people who agreed with me. Many offenses would be punishable by floggings in the public square - anything that particularly annoyed me. Or if I was in a bad mood that day.
And all commercials would run between TV shows, never during.
Quote from: BlackAngel75 on January 14, 2010, 01:42:52 AM
3. Vegitarian is a four letter word
And vegan would be classified as a mental illness.
GIVE TREVOR CLEAN UNDERWEAR!
Quote from: AndyC on January 13, 2010, 11:03:02 AM
Got this idea from the thread in Weird News Stories, about educating junkies on how to shoot up safely. I suggested that if I were supreme dictator, I'd be a little more concerned about their wellbeing, and less about their rights.
I'd go in the exact opposite direction. I would make all non-victimless crimes legal, but hold people completely accountable for abusing their rights with no excuses. Want to try heroin? Fine. It would be cheap and standardized. But there would be no public assistance to help you support your habit. Try stealing to pay for it and wind up in the slammer. You can smoke marijuana, but if you drive and cause an accident you would risk significant imprisonment. It would be an experiment to see if, absent legal prescriptions against potentially dangerous behavior, society would go to hell in a handbasket or whether people could actually use freedom responsibly and accept the consequences of abuse.
I'd expect the jails to be overflowing under my rule!
Quote from: Rev. Powell on January 14, 2010, 12:23:34 PM
I'd expect the jails to be overflowing under my rule!
I'd use the prisoners for slave labor.
I think I might try putting a hard boundary on cities. Grow up, grow down, but don't grow out until there's no alternative.
And manned spaceflight would be a priority again. In less than a decade, people went from 15-minute suborbital hops in a can launched by a converted ICBM to landing on the freaking moon. All it took was the commitment to do what was necessary. Forty years later, and we're thinking about maybe picking up where we left off 40 years ago, but it'll take a decade or two, assuming we don't get off track. Everything's got to be perfect, or we can't do it. Here, enjoy another 3D animation of what real space travel might look like if it ever happens. :lookingup:
Little unmanned probes might be good enough for science, but I want heroes, adventure, and the possibility of actually visiting places instead of looking at pictures. And if it's not completely efficient and 100% safe, so what? That's half the point of pioneering. I want some kind of functioning moon base in five years, and people on the way to Mars within ten years or (draws finger across throat).
Quote from: AndyC on January 14, 2010, 04:52:26 PM
I think I might try putting a hard boundary on cities. Grow up, grow down, but don't grow out until there's no alternative.
And manned spaceflight would be a priority again. In less than a decade, people went from 15-minute suborbital hops in a can launched by a converted ICBM to landing on the freaking moon. All it took was the commitment to do what was necessary. Forty years later, and we're thinking about maybe picking up where we left off 40 years ago, but it'll take a decade or two, assuming we don't get off track. Everything's got to be perfect, or we can't do it. Here, enjoy another 3D animation of what real space travel might look like if it ever happens. :lookingup:
Little unmanned probes might be good enough for science, but I want heroes, adventure, and the possibility of actually visiting places instead of looking at pictures. And if it's not completely efficient and 100% safe, so what? That's half the point of pioneering. I want some kind of functioning moon base in five years, and people on the way to Mars within ten years or (draws finger across throat).
Amen to that,brother! I would definitly be shooting for the stars! I think I'm going to quit my job and become an astronaut.The kind like in those Robert Heinlen books-who live to be 280 years old.Yup-it's on my to-do list. :thumbup:
Send Everyone KING CAKE!!!!!!!
I'd sterilize everyone on Earth, then give everyone a Tootsie pop and have them answer the age old question.
Quote from: Bull on January 14, 2010, 08:43:10 AM
GIVE TREVOR CLEAN UNDERWEAR!
:bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :thumbup:
And a clean soccer shirt, please. Mine's dirty. :buggedout: