This may be dumb, or very intertaining, but after reading a comment by Vegas N$X, I wonder. If you could have your own Island country and make it a place that you think is better than anywhere else..what would it be like? Laws, Money, Police, Roads, Property?what kind of place would we live in on YOUR Island? (answers dont need to be too involved, unless your bored)
Hahahahahaha! :tongue:
This is source of much amusement in my office. I CONSTANTLY talk about MY island and my ideas go on and on and on and on...
Someday I'll have to write up some long proposal about MY island but for now I'll talk about how the idea started.
The problem I see in today's free society is that for those people who want to live a good, law abiding life they are exposed to people with malicious intent. The problem is that the intermingling of social ideals, levels, classes, etc. allows those who with malicious intent access to those who wish to avoid it. Sure you can put a fence around your property, a gate at your door, but what about in public places? What about when these evil people cross into your territory?
The first idea would be to take all of the “bad people” and push them off to an island. But that idea is fraught with problems. First of all, how can someone determine if someone is bad or evil? Plus the political issues related to discrimination and stereotyping would kill that idea post haste. It would boil down to a modern day witch hunt.
So my idea is to take the converse of that. Voluntarily allow good people to move and live on a separate island. What you could have is some sort of metric that allow you to live on that island. And in essence this idea already exists. Look at any city and you will see good, more affluent areas where the education is higher, crime rates are lower etc. Then there are the bad parts of town where the converse is true. Things like gated communities are in essence are their own island. This is just taking that idea one step further. And because living on this island is purely voluntary, then if you don’t like the aspects of the island, then you can leave at any time.
A simple example of this is ideal in action is take your NSX. You can try to protect it by putting it in a garage and putting an alarm on it. But because you are not on an island, and intermingled with people who may not value the same ideals as you, every time you drive or park your car in public, you are at risk of someone damaging or stealing it. Now think if you were on an island, where everyone else had an NSX or an equivalent car that they valued. Because everyone has a mutual respect of one another’s car, you can drive your car with the freedom knowing it will be safe on the island. I’ve seen this freedom on a number of NSX car meets and it is quite refreshing. Just extrapolate this idea to more than just cars and you get the idea of my island.
Now will the island be perfect? Of course not. There will still be the occasional crime, murder, or freak incident, but those that are found guilty of crime will be booted off the island. Remember, staying on the island is a privilege, not a right, so play by the rules or leave. (Oops, already getting into some of the island slogans) :biggrin: So while it may not be perfect, I still think it will be infinitely better.
Anyway, I have tons more ideas about MY island that I’ll get to someday, but that’s the gist of it. It's basically my realistic ideal of a utopia.