I know this thread's a bit old, but it's not that old, and I wanted to respond to some things....
Some of them completely off topic
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Originally Posted by DarkenedSoul
we're off to see the wizard
the wonderful wizard of oz
Ok but anyway, they banned Risen too. Why are Australia so ban happy with games?
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Because we don't have an adult rating for video games. Michael Atkinson, the South Australian Attorney General, is continually blocking it. He is trying to impose what he see's as Christian values onto others who don't share those same values. He's a fascist.
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Originally Posted by PhilistineEars
No offense to those of the compulsory voting nations of the forum, but:
What I find undemocratic is the practice of certain governments, including my Australian friends, to hold forced-vote elections. Before compulsory voting was established nationwide in 1924, Australian voter turnout hovered between 47-59%. So you had 40+ percent of the populace just casting a ballot because they "had to". Hopefully this sentiment has changed over the decades.
I'm sure there are certain groups within the US that would like to see this happen. I fear the day when people realize it's "Super Tuesday" and they have to go to the polling centers. It's a national right to vote, not a chore. People just throwing paper into the box, pencil whipping the ballots to get out of there as soon as they can... (shudders)
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Because with non compulsory voting, you get certain demographics which tend to vote more, such as elderly gun-nuts, crazy religious fundies (like our friends in
Westboro, and we certainly DON'T want them anywhere near the Whitehouse). This skews the results, as it doesn't represent a majority (one of the principles of a Democracy, no?). We know that most humans tend towards laziness, and will probably not vote if given the option. Do they just have to be taken along for the ride, simply for adhering to human nature? Thus we don't give them an option.
