Mostly joking...

[x_maker]

But seriously, how hard WOULD it be to take over a small state or even a small country and claim it as a mutant homeland? Or even do it diplomatically, just assign a "homeland". I mean, they did it with Israel back half a century ago, what's to say that couldn't be done for a mutant homeland?

Not that I'd advocate it - I mean, look how horribly it's gone over in the Middle East - but really, who thinks it couldn't be a feasible occurrence in the next, oh, twenty years?

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[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

I could answer that question, but I am not sure you would like it very much.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

No fair using precognition to make my political science musings all moot.

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

You can still muse. I did not tell you any of the details.

[x-roulette.livejournal.com]

State, no, because then you'd have the rest of the country on you. Plus, if it were a country, you'd have to make sure it didn't have any nuclear-powered allies.

Or, it'd just be a bad idea in general, because if a mutant took over a country, then the whole wide world would be all OMGWTFBBQ!!!!11!!!eleventy-!1!!!!111 and we'd all be put into "protective" custody.

[x-snowflake.livejournal.com]

Sounds messy to me. You might want to take up a speculative hobby that doesn't include killing people or putting them out of their homes. Just a thought.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Exactly why I wouldn't advocate such a thing. As proud as I am of my genetic heritage, the numbers alone argue for an integrationist philosophy in the current social structure. A solely-mutant state would be more politically fragile than any of the ethnocentric theocracies littering the Middle East these days. Bad idea all around.

But not all created states designed for a certain group have had histories of conflict and bloodshed to establish them. Liberia, for example.

[x-roulette.livejournal.com]

if you ignore the civil war they've been having...

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Ah, but that has nothing to do with how or why they were founded.

[x-roulette.livejournal.com]

true. But peacfully establishing a country doesn't neccessarily mean it's always going to be peaceful. What if the "peaceful" mutant country decided to not be so peaceful? Or it could be like Israel in the sixties, when the rest of the middle east decided to invade it.

[x-snowflake.livejournal.com]

I have got no bloody idea what you just said. Stay with me here, I grew up in the wild. All I'm saying is that it sounds like a stupid idea, and anyone who actually does like it is a moron.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Right. Grew up in Hell and all that, my bad.

In summary: I think humans and mutants living in a mixed society is a better idea. Sticking a bunch of people somewhere where they can all exclude the rest of the world because they're different leads to feelings of resentment. It's like the stupid high school cliques, but with nukes.

[x-snowflake.livejournal.com]

Well, more like, I'm not a super-genius like everyone else, and you all have this habit of saying things I have no context for. But now I get it.

Your opinion is acceptable. Actually I think I quite agree.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Believe me, there's plenty of people here who aren't super-geniuses. It's not like you're in a minority.

[x-snowflake.livejournal.com]

Yes, but I can't stand most of them.

Kidding (well, I mostly wasn't, but I'll pretend) aside, there are an inordinate number of really, really smart people here. As well as a fair number of morons, so it probably balances out.

[x-coldhands.livejournal.com]

Yep. No super-genius over here.

STAND UP AND BE COUNTED, THOSE OF AVERAGE INTELLECT!

One phrase for you.

[x-empath.livejournal.com]

Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuehrer.

Manuel

[x-mirage.livejournal.com]

as long as there aren't any "reservations".

I ain't going back to one.