We do allow them outlets. Art. Education. Sports, within reason. Hobbies, so long as they remain legal. Games. Things like that. But they get out of control.
[She waves her hand, thinking, then nods.]
Sometimes a fad will sweep through the city. We call them crazes. Some of them are harmless, such as the Pacne craze. Intelligent zits that acted like some ancient video game on your face or back. Or 'Bottomless' pants, which, well. Lost its seating when the original designer decided 'frontless' pants would be the next evolution.
And then you get crazes like personal weather machines, which started floods and caused tornadoes when you had fifty thousand citizens amplifying one another's weather alterations. Or bat-gliding, which ended in citizens crowding the skies and falling into traffic before we started regulating things.
[But she could go on forever about those things.]
Boredom, I could understand. But so many of them are stupid, almost willfully so, or have criminal tendencies and use these crazes to cover their crimes. There are outlets, it's just that the citizens take them to the absurd when they get the chance. We regulate things so harshly because we've seen the citizens take something innocent and cause disasters.
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[She waves her hand, thinking, then nods.]
Sometimes a fad will sweep through the city. We call them crazes. Some of them are harmless, such as the Pacne craze. Intelligent zits that acted like some ancient video game on your face or back. Or 'Bottomless' pants, which, well. Lost its seating when the original designer decided 'frontless' pants would be the next evolution.
And then you get crazes like personal weather machines, which started floods and caused tornadoes when you had fifty thousand citizens amplifying one another's weather alterations. Or bat-gliding, which ended in citizens crowding the skies and falling into traffic before we started regulating things.
[But she could go on forever about those things.]
Boredom, I could understand. But so many of them are stupid, almost willfully so, or have criminal tendencies and use these crazes to cover their crimes. There are outlets, it's just that the citizens take them to the absurd when they get the chance. We regulate things so harshly because we've seen the citizens take something innocent and cause disasters.