Today I’ve got this Issue on my Nationstates (nationstates.net)
Safe Sects
Your niece Jazz, who reached the age of majority three weeks ago and left home the day afterwards, has finally written a letter: “Hello, blood relatives. I am safe and have found my real, spiritual family. The Society of Love are wonderful people who truly care about me. I have pledged one trillion years of loyal service and all my present and future possessions to them. If you love me, let me be happy and send me my stuff. Ta and that. Bye forever, Sister Sunny Sunshine Sunbeam.”
I’ve encountered with 4 choice
1. “Jazz has been brainwashed!” sobs your sister. “She’s been spouting mystical gobbledegook, acting distant, even reading. Now she’s gone to one of these closed communities and changed her name? These happy-clappy guitar-wielding maniacs tell naïve teenagers that they could have unending happiness and wisdom and all that bullsh… -hickey, and the wide-eyed simpletons believe it. Now she wants to give up everything, even her dreams, to be a slave forever? You must break-up every cultic group that preys on young people. Drag our children home, if necessary!”
2. “Many insecure adolescents and young adults can be drawn to apparently friendly groups that seem to possess all the answers,” postulates your uncle and sociologist, Anthony, the author of Cult Classics and Faustian Faiths. “Cults often employ ‘love bombing’, a technique where all cult members express constant affection towards a potential convert to snare them. Young people may be especially vulnerable to this, particularly if they come from troubled households. No, ahem, offence to your sister. Educate our young people to be aware of indoctrination techniques and signs, and teach them to think for themselves. Steel our youngsters against the cults in our midst.”
3. “Cult is a word that the unspiritual and cowards use to mean a different idea,” retorts your nephew, who’s changed lately, after looking up from the brown-covered italics-titled book he’s reading. “Sunny Sunshi… Jazz is a grown woman. Once someone’s old enough to choose their own faith, everyone should butt-out. In fact, it’s no-one’s business what any spiritually mature person believes. Someone who’s attained Truth should not be kept from their spiritual home, just because they’re a tiny thirteen months from the age of legal majority. Free supremely spiritual folks to follow our consciences. After all, there’s no ‘community’ without ‘unity’, no ‘community’ withou… why are you all staring at me?”
4. Dismiss the issue
Option 2. sounds cool so I choose it.
The result saids ‘Five-year-olds who refuse to line up on command get gold stars.’
In result, my nation get a boost of this qualities.
Youth Rebelliousness
Stark-Dean Displacement Index 7.7%
Patriotism
Flags Saluted Per Person Per Day 6.2%
Public Education
Edu-tellignce? Test Score 0.52%
Intelligence
Quips Per Hour 0.17%
Compliance
Law-abiding Acts Per Hour 0.09%
Scientific Advancement
Kurzweil Singularity Index 0.08%
Tourism
Tourists Per Hour 0.07%
Government Size
Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index 0.06%
Pacifism
Cheeks Turned Per Day 0.04%
Average Income
Coins 0.03%
Human Development Index
Human Development Index 0.02%
Lifespan
Years 0.01%
And decline in this qualities
Eco-Friendliness
Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index 0.03%
Public Transport
Societal Mobility Rating 0.03%
Welfare
Safety Net Mesh Density Rating 0.03%
Business Subsidization
Gilded Widget Scale 0.03%
Law Enforcement
Orwell Orderliness Index 0.03%
Public Healthcare
Theresa-Nightingale Rating 0.03%
Foreign Aid
Clooney Contribution Index 0.03%
Political Apathy
Whatever 2.4%
This choice seems average.
