Noveja wrote:The Free Joy State wrote:
26 days late (the text was actually altered on the 2nd January 2019), but just a brief update to this. Following in-depth backstage discussion --we have added further clarification to the third option of #1028. It now reads:"Excuse me, some of us don't want kids." cries well-known career-woman, @@RANDOMNAMEFEMALE@@. "I've worked hard to get to where I am in my life right now, and I will not sacrifice my career and my ambitions to breed some snotty-nosed kids. Pregnancy is hard work too; nobody should be put through that. I hear that new vat-technology is doing wonders in other places. If you desperately need new brats, why don't you just grow them all in a lab and leave us poor women out of it completely?"
Hopefully, this should further clarify the replacement of biological reproduction with vat-produced people (the "No Sex Policy") with this option.
Forgive the late update, Boss Llama.
I just got whammied by this issue, so, no, it most emphatically does not clarify that.
Slapping an "all" into the sentence does not address the underlying problem.
The issue is a low/falling birth rate.
Option 1 is forcing women to have at least three children.
Option 2 is taking away women's ability to (safely) not get pregnant.
Option 3 is a feminist (naturally) ticked off by these authoritarian ideas and arguing for vat-grown children instead.
"Them all" and "completely" can be read as referring to the additional children/births the nation needs, or even just as an emphatic figure of speech. No way is there any indication to consider the hyper-literal outlandish notion that she is talking about every last one of the nation's future "new brats".
It is utterly beyond me how for such a drastic effect something as small as adding a short clarifying sentence including the word "outlaw" (or "illegal") to option 3 or as a reaction to it in option 4 is apparently too much to ask for.
If there is one group of hills my nation is willing to die on, it's being able to do with your own body as you please, with the hill of sexual liberty most prominent of all, so this seriously sours me on the whole game. I could - begrudgingly - live with no biological reproduction per se, but the policy is called "No Sex", it also canceled sex education, and social conservatism rose significantly, all of which (and more) heavily suggesting to me that even recreational sex is outlawed.
I took in stride how a war I never wanted forever halved my population's average disposable income, and every other setback was fun in its own way, but this effectively ruined the nation of Noveja. Fantastic.
Recreational sex is not outlawed. A future issue will clarify this. It's #1113 (this issue, along with one other, also gives you the option to unban reproductive sex).
As for your predicament, the sentence is perfectly clear. Arguably, once it was easier to get confused but all the information is there:
Pregnancy is hard work too; nobody should be put through that. I hear that new vat-technology is doing wonders in other places. If you desperately need new brats, why don't you just grow them all in a lab and leave us poor women out of it completely?"
"Pregnancy is hard work too; nobody should be put through that. [...]If you desperately need new brats, why don't you just grow them all in a lab and leave us poor women out of it completely?"
The sentences, read properly in their full context, make the option perfectly clear.
If you have not done so yet, I suggest you turn on "Require confirmation before passing legislation" in your Settings.
Please consider this query closed.