SMAC/X and affinities

[BlaneckW]

I would assign her to Purity anyway because the affinities are primarily philosophical and response-to-the-new-world approaches, rather than military ones.

what the hell is a philosophical response?  do they preach Marxism and hope someone makes revolution?  All of my spiritual "philosophy" is practice.  All of my political "philosophy" is based on practice.

[Yitzi]

I would assign her to Purity anyway because the affinities are primarily philosophical and response-to-the-new-world approaches, rather than military ones.

what the hell is a philosophical response?  do they preach Marxism and hope someone makes revolution?  All of my spiritual "philosophy" is practice.  All of my political "philosophy" is based on practice.

A philosophical response is one based on philosophical ideals; in this case, the importance of humanity.

[Othniel]

I view  's philosophy in the viewpoint of the survival of the individual. But the Beyond Earth affinities are meant to be very broad and are made to fit wide styles of play, so more likely than not, each of SMAX leader is likely to fit into more than one category. It may even be easier to say which one is not.

I have this feeling that I'm going to need to pull leaders' quotes from Beyond Earth at some point to figure out their canonical viewpoints so that there is something more solid we can compare. Heck, might be interesting to see what they look like SMACified.

[Buster's Uncle]

Already commenced - http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=12825.0 - please feel free to contribute.

[BlaneckW]

A philosophical response is one based on philosophical ideals; in this case, the importance of humanity.

Ideals aren't necessarily even corroborated by actions. It's fantasy.

[Yitzi]

A philosophical response is one based on philosophical ideals; in this case, the importance of humanity.

Ideals aren't necessarily even corroborated by actions.

They aren't always corroborated by actions, but often they are.  And affinities (and, for that matter, SMAC itself) are about when they are.

[BlaneckW]

The people who host philosophy meetings practice nothing, neither spiritual nor political.

[Yitzi]

The people who host philosophy meetings practice nothing, neither spiritual nor political.

There are more ways of having relevant philosophical thoughts than formal philosophy meetings, you know.

[BlaneckW]

There are more ways of having relevant philosophical thoughts than formal philosophy meetings, you know.

Are you referring to Stalin?

[Yitzi]

There are more ways of having relevant philosophical thoughts than formal philosophy meetings, you know.

Are you referring to Stalin?

Not in particular; there are a huge number of people that acted based on philosophically-based ideals.

[BlaneckW]

Not in particular; there are a huge number of people that acted based on philosophically-based ideals.

who?  Zoroaster?

[Yitzi]

Not in particular; there are a huge number of people that acted based on philosophically-based ideals.

who?  Zoroaster?

Not sure if he counts...but let's take all the people who hid Jews from the Nazis at risk to their own lives.  That was based on morality, which is a type of philosophical ideal.

[BlaneckW]

Not sure if he counts...but let's take all the people who hid Jews from the Nazis at risk to their own lives.  That was based on morality, which is a type of philosophical ideal.

we all die eventually anyway

[Yitzi]

Not sure if he counts...but let's take all the people who hid Jews from the Nazis at risk to their own lives.  That was based on morality, which is a type of philosophical ideal.

we all die eventually anyway

Yes, but that wasn't in the considerations there, so what's your point?

[BlaneckW]

we all die eventually anyway

and how hard is it, really, to hide a man