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The Origins of Government, and How it Relates to League of Legends.

Willahelm Fulber·8/29/2014, 12:39:10 AM·3 votes·855 views

Imagine a world without government. Nobody to tell you what you can or can't do sounds pretty great, but remember that that means you CAN lie, steal, cheat, kill, or worse, at no cost of your own. Well, sure that sounds cool, I can do whatever I want! But what if someone else steals from you? Do you let them be because they're stronger than you, or try to steal back because it was yours in the first place? This is where the first idea of "moral law" comes in. If there are a bunch of little guys and 1 big guy taking everything the little guys want, the little guys can and will gang up against the stronger guy, simply due to morality. When someone besmirches your name in a game of League, one of the things many people does is ask to 1v1, to prove who's actually better.

After a few cycles of a group deposing the king, then someone else becoming the king, then the group deposing him, they realized that this repetition is stupid, so the group comes up with a set of rules for the king to do, so he doesn't get himself dethroned. In turn, the group gave the king some special privileges over themselves, as incentive for him not to break the rules. This was the first stable society.

Fast forward some number of years to today. There are many types of government, from Republics , to Democracies, to Oligarchies. But people forget that the internet is an entity consisting of many peoples around the world, and while not every person is a citizen of each site, each website has its rules that citizens must abide by. For League of Legends, the rules are listed in several places and are generally what the community deems are acceptable, such as no cussing, don't demean others, and don't do something counter-intuitive to the game itself, such as intentionally feeding. This is why the League of Legends is governed by the people who play it.

Right now, I've heard things about the Summoner's Tribunal being offline for now, and Riot Games members are "governing". This is because right now, they feel there are too many unique cases where the person shouldn't really be punished for their actions, and at the same time there are many unique cases where the person should be punished for their actions severely so due to their previous actions. As someone more knowledgable in the forms of government has told me, Lyte and his group of counselors could be seen as an Oligarchy, and as there is nothing we can do to change his direction of control, we have to live with it for the time being. We have, in essence, given this cabal total control over the community, in order to "clean up" the filth we have. Hopefully, he stays true to that idea. But, quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Either way, it is out duty to find those who are preforming acts we deem unsuitable for the game and the community and point them out for whatever ruling body above us to punish.

6 Comments

Diamonesd8/29/2014, 1:37:16 AM1 votes

What history class did you take and at what Community College did you take it?

Ansury9/22/2014, 11:16:20 PM1 votes

A world without government, do whatever at no cost of your own? There is always a cost. Some easier to pay than others.

Also the little guys vs the big guy. Well that's been done most of human history. We are even doing it now. You can read up in history books about CIA conspiracies, how we installed puppet government who protect American interest. School of the Americas where we train people in torture so they can suppress their populace. Those guys in Afghanistan, we trained them to kill commies and we came back decades later, of course they will know how to kill us too.

Go a bit further back you can read on stuff like the boxer rebellion in China when all the western countries were dividing it up. The stronger western nations teamed up and smashed that, leading to an even bigger rebellion which turned on itself leading to Chinese going commie and a smaller different faction fleeing to Taiwan. That leading to the Korean war, part of the big game in the cold war, which lead to the above.

Then you have U.S. Army planning genocide on the natives. Easiest way to end their future was to exterminate the women and children. Manifest destiny can't be stopped. Anyway my point being this never stops, the struggle for power. The big guy or guys will always take from the weak, and our government was supposed to realize this with checks and balances. Know that when the little guy finally gets power he can be just as bad. It tried to keep that game neutral with things like War Powers act, but there are ways around or people ignore it and congress does nothing about it. Thus opens the floodgates for more abuse of powers.

Places like England the power came from the Kings, the biggest guy of them all. They still got 'em the traditions, not as much power but not much to worry about as the PM handles most things. They still have absolute say and can use that veto power, and with great effect. The government does all it can to be just and right but for the benefit of the country the monarch can pull whatever was to be passed, blow their nose in it like a tissue then trash it and that's law. A slick backhanded workaround if I've ever seen one. Nobody would question it and just nod their heads in agreement, from commoner to nobility.

Just had to check out the wiki, veto 1707 or something was the last used listed there but I know for a fact they were passing some laws about some islands they were destroying and ending the livelihood of the people living there. Parliament did them justice and swoosh veto. I'm just surprised one hasn't abused their station, maybe they have and its been kept secret.

I don't know if you are American. You could be into guns and freedom and shouting Murica while eating deep friend apple pie. But I'll let you in on a little secret on how most of us live. We don't live by the law we are only punished by it.

Freedom enough to do whatever the hell we want and suffer the consequences. Live by our own rule our own laws, and as long as we don't interfere in a way somebody else lives, we all get along fine.

They should just make an 18+ troll queue, where anything goes. Maybe have a team killing enabled challenge option so when fights do break out its solved with blood. They might never make it to the LCS but individual skill might be best in the world. Get the trolls in one place, or just a place to let it out. Once they go back to properly enforced game you know who to watch. If there are to many to watch you just increase the size of that ban hammer so they know to save it for the troll queue.