[submitted 4.4.16] Acceptable Breaks From Reality

[Candlewhisper Archive]

Name:

Acceptable Breaks From Reality

Description:

Recently, a seriously stoned drug user walked into the path of busy city traffic, causing a multi-vehicle pile up that claimed six lives. Now lobby groups are calling for the government to take the safety concerns of heavy drug use into hand.

Validity:

Top 25% of Recreational Drug Use
Not valid in nations that have banned cars.
Not valid in nations that have banned drugs.

Options:

[option]"We need safe spaces to get spaced out," requests @@randomname@@, keen inhaler of exotic fumes. "Maybe the government could create designated gated gardens that only let you back out once you do a simple maths puzzle. You could have registered dealers in these places too, and pizza-parlours, and pretty flowers. Aw dude, it'd be safe AND good for the economy."
[effect]helicopters avoid flying over city parks because of the narcotic haze
[optionvalidity]capitalist nations

[option]"We need safe spaces to get spaced out," requests @@randomname@@, keen inhaler of exotic fumes. "Maybe the government could create designated gated gardens that only let you back out once you do a simple maths puzzle. You could have state-provided drugs in these places too, and pizza distribution points, and pretty flowers. Aw dude, it makes me proud to be a socialist."
[effect]helicopters avoid flying over city parks because of the narcotic haze
[optionvalidity]non-capitalist nations

[option]"Why should we be acting as nannies for grown adults?" asks police officer @@randomname@@, waving @@HIS@@ truncheon at a passing stoner. "Let's give them an incentive to be responsible instead: change the law so that inebriation, intoxication and drug-induced mental states don't diminish accountability in any way, and also make it illegal to be affected by any drug or chemical in any public space."
[effect]taking tea in the park is seen as criminally irresponsible

[option]"Maaaaan, I just had some mushrooms and I know EXACTLY what to do!" says a young man, staring at a point a few inches behind your head. "It's not the drugs that killed people, man. It's the cars! Ban the cars!"
[effect]people don't need cars because drugs get them where they need to go

Name:

Acceptable Breaks From Reality

Description:

Recently, a seriously stoned drug user walked into the path of busy city traffic, causing a multi-vehicle pile up that claimed six lives. Now lobby groups are calling for the government to take the safety concerns of heavy drug use into hand.

Validity:

Top 25% of Recreational Drug Use
Not valid in nations that have banned cars.
Not valid in nations that have banned drugs.

Options:

[option]"We need safe spaces to get spaced out," requests @@RANDOMNAME@@, a keen smoker of exotic plants. "Maybe the government could create designated gated gardens that only let you back out once you do a simple maths puzzle. You could have registered dealers in these places too, and pretty flowers. Aw man, it'd be safe AND beautiful."
[effect]the 'high points' of @@CAPITAL@@ are filled with stoned and dyscalculic teens
[stats]recreational drug use increases, safety increases, safety from crime increases, environmental beauty increases, health decreases, intelligence decreases, industry: tourism increases,

[option]"Why should we be nannying grown adults?" asks police officer @@RANDOMFEMALENANE@@. "Let's give them incentives to be responsible instead: change the law so that inebriation, intoxication and drug-induced mental states don't diminish accountability in any way, and also make it illegal to be affected by any drug or chemical in any public space."
[effect]cafes and tea-shops are closing as regulation of stimulant consumption tightens
[stats]recreational drug use decreases, safety increases, law and order spending increases, compliance increases, civil rights decrease a little,

[option]"My friend here in law-enforcement has it right," says @@RANDOMNAME@@, a conservative politician, "but she doesn't go far enough. It's time we recategorised the so-called softer drugs, and made them all illegal to possess or deal. Let's salvage a more sober and sensible society."
[effect]high times are at an end as society cracks down on crack-dealers
[stats]industry: tourism decreases, recreational drug use decreases a lot, safety increases, civil rights decrease, authoritarianism increases, social conservatism increases, cheerfulness decreases, health increases, employment increases, economic growth increases,

[option]"Maaaaan, I just had some mushrooms and I know EXACTLY what to do!" says a young man, staring at a point a few inches behind your head. "It's not the drugs that killed people, man. It's the cars! Ban the cars!"
[effect]people don't need cars because drugs get them where they need to go
[stats]cars banned - same stat changes as similar options in other issues (eg 290.4)

Name:

Acceptable Breaks From Reality

Description:

Recently, a seriously stoned drug user walked into the path of busy city traffic, causing a multi-vehicle pile up that claimed six lives. Now lobby groups are calling for the government to take the safety concerns of heavy drug use into hand.

Validity:

Top 25% of Recreational Drug Use
Not valid in nations that have banned cars.

Options:

[option]"We need safe spaces to get spaced out," requests @@RANDOMNAME@@, a keen smoker of exotic plants. "Maybe the government could create designated gated gardens that only let you back out once you do a simple maths puzzle. You could have registered dealers in these places too, and pretty flowers. Aw man, it'd be safe AND beautiful."
[effect]the 'high points' of the city are filled with stoned and dyscalculic teens
[stats]recreational drug use increases, safety increases, safety from crime increases, environmental beauty increases, health decreases, intelligence decreases, industry: tourism increases,

[option]"Why should we be nannying grown adults?" asks police officer @@RANDOMFEMALENANE@@. "Let's give them incentives to be responsible instead: change the law so that inebriation, intoxication and drug-induced mental states don't diminish accountability in any way, and also make it illegal to be affected by any drug or chemical in any public space."
[effect]cafes and tea-shops are closing as regulation of stimulant consumption tightens
[stats]recreational drug use decreases, safety increases, law and order spending increases, compliance increases, civil rights decrease a little,

[option]"My friend here in law-enforcement has it right," says @@RANDOMNAME@@, a conservative politician, "but she doesn't go far enough. Its time we recategorised the so-called softer drugs, and made them all illegal to possess or deal. Let's salvage a more sober and sensible society."
[effect]high times are at an end as society cracks down on crack-dealers
[stats]industry: tourism decreases, recreational drug use decreases a lot, safety increases, civil rights decrease, authoritarianism increases, social conservatism increases, cheerfulness decreases, health increases, employment increases, economic growth increases,

[option]"Maaaaan, I just had some mushrooms and I know EXACTLY what to do!" says a young man, staring at a point a few inches behind your head. "It's not the drugs that killed people, man. It's the cars! Ban the cars!"
[effect]people don't need cars because drugs get them where they need to go
[stats]cars banned - same stat changes as similar options in other issues (eg 290.4)

[Candlewhisper Archive]

I'm not too keen on my own effect 1 here, as it makes so little sense if seen on a nation description page by someone visiting their nation page. Will happily take any witty substitution.

Also, not sure if anyone but a tvtropes addict will get the reference in the title, and as my friends are all geeks its hard for me to know how generally accessible that title is.

[Leppikania]

I would just replace "city" with "@@CAPITAL@@".

[Candlewhisper Archive]

ok done

[Trotterdam]

[option]"Why should we be nannying grown adults?" asks police officer @@RANDOMFEMALENANE@@. "Let's give them incentives to be responsible instead: change the law so that inebriation, intoxication and drug-induced mental states don't diminish accountability in any way, and also make it illegal to be affected by any drug or chemical in any public space."

That sounds like nannying grown adults to me.

"You're not allowed to get drunk" and "you're allowed to get drunk, but are legally responsible for anything stupid you do while so" are completely different responses, and while they're both interesting in their own ways, it makes no sense to combine them.

[option]"My friend here in law-enforcement has it right," says @@RANDOMNAME@@, a conservative politician, "but she doesn't go far enough. It's time we recategorised the so-called softer drugs, and made them all illegal to possess or deal. Let's salvage a more sober and sensible society."
[effect]high times are at an end as society cracks down on crack-dealers

This assumes that drugs are currently legal, so add that to the validity.

[Candlewhisper Archive]

I've added legality as a validity, but I wasn't sure it was necessary because of the top 25% recreational drug use requirement. Way I see it, if you meet that criteria while drugs are still illegal, then you're pretty much a society that has decided to turn a blind eye to that illegal behaviour anyway, so its only illegal in an academic sense.

Regarding option 2, it is of course meant to sound hypocritical and reactionary.

[Trotterdam]

This is beyond hypocricy, though. It's not even having a double standard based on any meaningful criteria. It's just telling you to do something, and then one and a half sentences later, telling you to do the exact opposite.

And it ruins what would otherwise be an interesting policy by diluting it to the point of irrelevance.

[Candlewhisper Archive]

Alright, let's retry that. How about?

[option]"Why should grown adults need baby-sitting?" asks police officer @@RANDOMFEMALENANE@@. "Let's give them incentives to be responsible instead: change the law so that inebriation, intoxication and drug-induced mental states don't diminish accountability in any way."
[effect]
[stats]recreational drug use decreases, safety increases, law and order spending increases, compliance increases, civil rights decrease a little,

New effect line needed. Any ideas?

[Candlewhisper Archive]

Current version bumped for further feedback.Anyone?