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Originally Posted by whswhs
It does engage my libertarian sympathies, but at the same time it has a lower CR than I would want to live under—which is different from a lot of settings, making it interesting for me, and which offers lots of room for people to have adventures.
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Not to get into political debate, but consider that the absolute necessity for early colonists to work together in order to survive and the very high risk that one person's screw-up can get lots of other people killed might result in certain laws and cultural elements which would make a fanatical Stalinist seem like a
Laissez-Faire Capitalist.
Basically, "Do whatever you want, but, if you mess with the life support or even look like you're going to do so, the state comes down on you and yours like 100 tonnes of regolith."