You remind me of my friend. He's a 34 year old virgin majoring in Astrophysics. I have taken him to a strip club, and managed to persuade one of the strippers to sleep with him. Then he rejected the offer. WTF! And it was hard enough getting him to the strip club in the first place!

I guess some people are just asexual...

Hehe, Chris has offers from female IC members to devirginize him all ready, and yet he has rejected them. I have also offered to spend $ on his behalf to seduce a girl to devirginize him, and he rejected that too. He's hopeless.

For the record, I do not touch female virgins. Flint can level them up a few levels first for all I care.

LOL.

Okay Bief. If you say so... They are still Westerners, even if you do not like them or want them included in any union.

Einstein,

True. The only justification I have is that I think it would be cool, and that such an Empire would be invincible. Not even China could hope to measure up to it.

This is my approximate idea of the West

http://i44.tinypic.com/n9eg8.jpg

And Italy and Greece are "Western." You haters can stfu. Greece laid the foundations of Western civilization, and Rome adapted, improved upon and spread it. Though Greece also spread Western Civilization under Alexander The Great and his successors, their success was short lived and the borders of Western Civilization contracted with Persian, and later Muslim expansion. Furthermore, I tried to limit my borders to Russia, but I consider western Russia mostly Western as well. Israel and Japan are also vaguely Western, although I did not include them because both countries, while heavily influenced by the West, have effectively adapted Western influence in to their own cultures (like Japanese anime), and Japan strongly maintains its own unique identity. That said, I think it would be cool if Japan were to be part of a Western Union.

Sadly, I agree that a Western Union is impractical today. Nevertheless, I think the idea would be cool, and may not be as foolish of an idea in the distant future.

I agree the Republicans can STFU about religion and social conservatism.

However, HIV is overrated. It does not deserve the attention it gets. The transmission risk is so low I would risk my life by having unprotected intercourse with a HIV infected woman every day (provided she was hot and not infected with any other viral STI) for an entire year every day just to prove my point.

A war can not be illegal beyond a country's own laws. There is no world government to issue or enforce such laws. Sure, there is a UN, but it is not a world government. It is kind of like all the drug cartels having a regular conference to communicate and cooperate when it is convenient for them. The power of the conference also depends on the collective cooperation of its members. Likewise, any member of the conference can tell the conference to buzz off if they don't like their decisions. The world major powers have all done that many times with the UN, and it's not like the UN can do anything about it.

Art? It's not an asset and I don't want my money going to it. Governments of the past used art to glorify themselves. Second, I have no taste for modern art. I might have a different view if it was more like ancient to early modern art, but sorry I am not impressed by graph papers with lines through them being displayed in art museums.

Torture? Being upset about it is a waste of energy and it does not violate my rather low moral expectations of government.

And when China does collapse, we can say the Central Committee has also collapsed .

Rent or live with mom

Then again, you give enemy combatants nothing to lose by fighting you if you promise to kill all of them.

Edit: Agreed with Kemp. If they are civilized, then we will be civilized. If they are barbarians, then we should be permitted to remove those restraints if it is convenient to do so.

I think War Honor should be two sided. If you both agree to minimize the negative effects of war, then great. But if not, anything goes.

Sure, I have no problem with being a judge . But understand that I am most convinced by arguments that are supported by both strong evidence and sound logic, and are intended to do what is best for society.

We're going to max out on DS