death camps

[CygnusZ]

I was pointing out how imperalistic policies can lead to situations of forced labor like he was describing.

[August Borms]

Originally posted by Earthling7


They did that during the Black Death period.

Who is they? The Turks perhaps?

[Bisonbison]

Originally posted by CygnusZ

Am I making sense here? Imperalism by nature involves forced labor upon various levels. Some more obvious, and some more discreet. If one takes the view that America has exerted imperalistic force upon the Middle East, it would then become a logical conclusion that it is true that America benefits from a form of forced labor from the middle east. President Bush, in this day and age, uses such policy in order to obtain forced labor... even during peacetime.

Whoa there. Forced labor's not just a term you can throw around whenever there's massive economic disparity. There are two parts here: the FORCED part, and the LABOR part. Forced labor involves the involuntary conscription of a population - whether it's a domestic population in peace [think American slavery], a domestic population in war [think Stalin], or a foreign population in war [think Hitler, or many POW camps]. These are forced labor situations - they involve governmental power, mandatory work and insignificant compensation.

To compare any of these with the effort to bring women into the American workforce in WWII equates FORCED labor with NOT FORCED labor. Do you see how women voluntarily taking jobs for various reasons [better pay, patriotic duty, desire for training, need to support family] is morally different from any of the above?

[Admiral PJ]

Birth Of The Federation is a good game, not as good as civilisation of course, but interesting. Its very similar to Master Of Orion2 but it has lots of minor alien planets that you have to try and seduce to join your Empire/Federation or the others get them.
Each minor planet can build wonders when you get them to join which are cool, and even have some extra ships to help you.
It has nice semi real time Space battle scenes, which can involve multiple allied Empires against otherse, but these aren't as good as MOO2 or civ tactically , you just tell them to run or attack or a couple other things and prevent them draining your shields, but it looks very pretty - they are in full 3D .

Bush may be a right wing greedy dumb pig.. but hes not as bad as Hitler and isn't really a fascist or Imperialist.

It is good if America gets involved more with foreign affairs, it isn't separate from the rest of the world so shouldn't pretend to be - It should aim to try and create a World Union and world peace with free aid and economic help, not just try and use Big business and Globalisation - its in the States' interests primarily to prevent another World Trade disaster.

Maybe thats another topic if so i'm sorry.

AdmiralPJ - abused, misused, confused.

[CygnusZ]

Originally posted by Lonestar
Cygnuz Strikes me as one of those guys who believes that only the United States has commited bad things in it's past. And the only country that continues to commit bad things.

His type is the kind that sees Black and White during current events (no gray) and can rationlize any atrocity commited by his own nation.

While America may have been Imperialistic in the past, it ain't a patch on the various West European powers, all the way up to the British landing troops in Sierra Leone, 1999.

To compare Bush to Hitler and Stalin is out of line, especially in the Civ3 forum. Go over to off-topic if you want to troll.

It isn't a criticism of Bush, its about overall issues that are larger than those simple minded things. It's about long term foriegn policy and international economic dependence. The truth itself is not that America is totally guilty of the forces I've talked about or totally free of them. The truth lies somewhere in the middle.

[Wittlich]

Well, this thread has proven one thing ... Players have different strategies in winning the game, be it shaded in evil acts or shaded in good acts.

To bad we have to wait for MP - Wth MP these human player strategies could be matched against each other instead of just being played against the AI...Oh well, hopefully we will have this capability in about 6 months from now.

[CygnusZ]

Originally posted by Bisonbison

Whoa there. Forced labor's not just a term you can throw around whenever there's massive economic disparity. There are two parts here: the FORCED part, and the LABOR part. Forced labor involves the involuntary conscription of a population - whether it's a domestic population in peace [think American slavery], a domestic population in war [think Stalin], or a foreign population in war [think Hitler, or many POW camps]. These are forced labor situations - they involve governmental power, mandatory work and insignificant compensation.

To compare any of these with the effort to bring women into the American workforce in WWII equates FORCED labor with NOT FORCED labor. Do you see how women voluntarily taking jobs for various reasons [better pay, patriotic duty, desire for training, need to support family] is morally different from any of the above?

The only point I was making about Women's Labor movement was that there are multiple ways to increase production in war. Both were different means to the same ends. That was saying that there are always different ways to achieve the same ends, and that Death Camp labor would be one of many options in CivIII if we were to get that realistic.

The second point I made, was that in a way forced labor can mean forced conscription, but there are other more devious ways to put people into forced labor through the use of economic stimuli. Simply put, I am saying that Forced Labor as described by the Dependency theory advocates De Facto forced labor. Contrarily, conscription would represent the De Jure forced labor.

So, to be very clear. I'm not trying to be Anti-American, but I am trying to point out that economic reality can crystalize a situation in which De Facto forced labor becomes practiced. There is one example of De Facto forced labor that comes to mind...

In Indonesia many girls are promised that if they pay certain men money they will be taken to American soil. When they agree to pay the first $400 they make in America, the men take them to factories in which various American goods are made. Technically, the land which the factory is situated upon is American soil, so the terms of the contract are fufilled. There the girls are made to work for little money until they can pay off the $400. This sort of system is dennoated as contractual slavery. The labor isn't forced, but yet it is (They don't _have_ to work, but they should work or else they'll never get to leave, so they do _HAVE_ to work). No conscription of the work force, but De Facto slavery through the use of economics. In concepts of Global Stratification the same occurs, but it is on a larger level. Smaller Countries depend upon large countries and are forced (but at the same time, not truly forced) to work for poor compensation.

As I said though, this isn't the universal outcome. Remember Canada.

[Cre8engr]

Originally posted by Mannamagnus
So what will be the next suggestion; torture chambers to have captured workers reveal the location of enemy cities?



It's not about some sprites on a computer screen, it's about the person playing the game and enjoying the idea of deathcamps.
Gameplay is not served with this sick idea, disbanding a city in an akward location by the push of a button suffices.

How about dropping them citizens into the Worm Pits? The very same pits full squiggly worms that eat at your brain tissue in SMAC?

[Cre8engr]

Originally posted by Frozen_Vomit
I have an even better addition to this tacktik. Why forced laber to rush build new units when u can simply draft the population

U can make the conquered citizens fight for your empire against their own....

I wonder if you could make those conquered citizens the first line of attack. You the line. They one that gets mowed down by the automatic rifle fire. The casualty list for that first batch has a tendancy to be very high.

[Cre8engr]

Originally posted by Assur
Slain soldiers? Pfff, I'd rather throw bodies of people who died of the plague over the city walls

....sounds a lot like a tactic that Alexander the Great used during the Persians. I can't remember the city, but he has the distinct glory of being the first general to use biological warfare.

[Lonestar]

As I said though, this isn't the universal outcome. Remember Canada.

Oh, like sweatshops don't occur in Canada?

[CygnusZ]

No, like Canada was a nation that was in the shackles of imperalism, yet it's economic fallout is not the same as other countries. They enjoy a great standard of living despite the imperalism which has come to foreshadow third world status.

[Lonestar]

Well, by that same arguement I can say most of the American Southwest was in the shackles of imperialism, and now have a far superior economy.

Same goes For Hawai'i.

[VetteroX]

I think Uber might have worded things the way he did because he wanted a huge responce, and if thats what he set out to do, he succeaded. I like his idea. If you feel like being a little evil, do it. If you don't like it, don't use it. Same thing with TV, if you don't like nudity violence, cursing etc, turn the channel. I remeber in CTP1/2 I LOVED slavers. This may sound evil to some. I dont support the idea in real life, but in the game it was just great, period. I remeber once having a size 30 city in anient times because of it. pop 7 with 23 slaves, single city with a population of about 1/2 my niegbors whole civ at the time. Like slavers in CTP, death camps could work well if you feel like playing on the evil side. Id say more, but drake said everything I could say, I liked everything he said. I played parts of fallout 2 multiple times just so I could watch my minigun make a guy into swiss cheese or my plasma gun make him into steaming goo.... its just a game, its fun.

[CygnusZ]

Originally posted by Lonestar
Well, by that same arguement I can say most of the American Southwest was in the shackles of imperialism, and now have a far superior economy.

Same goes For Hawai'i.

No, you can't because they were part of the Union. Being bought or brought into another country is not continued imperalism. Canada never rebelled or was bought by foriegn nations. Canada is symbolic of the ideal outcome of imperialistic policy.

The main point upon the subject of imperalism, in relation to how it affects nations, is that it tends to stress currently exisiting socio-economic situations.

If you haven't already, read the original post top to bottom making sure you understand the arguments presented.