Third Draft: 3.1
(options cut back to three, from the third draft's original four)
Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting!
[validity]Martial Arts have not been banned (issue #109, option 3, does so…): could chain specifically from pro-Martial Arts options in earlier issues (#20, option3; #109, option 1 & maybe option 2... any others?)
[issue]A report in today’s news suggests that the recent Martial Arts craze may be getting out of hand after the latest in a series of incidents left over a dozen people in @@CAPITAL@@ needing hospital treatment.
[option]″One moment, it was just two teenagers arguing over which had shoved the other in the cinema queue to see 'Knuck Chorris meets Big Dragon', then -- as fast as lightning -- just about everybody in sight was fighting!″ exclaims @@RANDOMNAME@@, a bruised and shaken businessman who’s being interviewed at the scene. ″Not just kids, but shoppers and commuters too, kicking and punching each other, and doing poses like ′Drunken @@ANIMAL@@′ right there in public! It was a little bit frightening.The government ought to ban teaching that sort of thing, and shut down all the Bojos or Hojos or whatever they’re called…″
[validity]Unrestricted
[effect]standing on one leg in public is a criminal offence
[option]″Ahh, so a few o’ the chop-socky jockeys got a bit too lively, did they?″ @@CAPITAL@@’s police chief, O’Hara, comments. ″What’s needed isn’t trying to stop folks from learning how to fight, because they’ll always be doing that whether they call it Kung-Fu or Kung Pao or just plain old brawling, for sure, it’s more police on the beat — with better funding for our own training and gear, of course — to keep the peace.″
[validity]Nation must have police
[effect]the standard police uniform now comes with several colours of belt
[option]″If this humble one, whose name is Master Po, might be heard?″ a passer-by at the site of the fight asks a broadcasting reporter. ″The true problem is not that so many people are learning these Arts, grasshopper, it is that unfortunately too many of their teachers have been focusing solely on the Arts’ physical aspects without also instructing their pupils in the underlying philosophical principles that would lead those people away from welcoming violent confrontation. I suggest that making the teachings of the ′Seven Sages of Old′ a core part of this country’s educational systems, not just for those who would then learn to fight but for everybody who would learn anything, is the wisest answer available.″
[validity]Unrestricted
[effect]the ′three Rs′ have become the ′four Rs’ with the addition of Rightful Thought
How many of the deliberate references did you identify?
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