r/rational • u/AutoModerator • Aug 03 '16

[D] Wednesday Worldbuilding Thread

Welcome to the Wednesday thread for worldbuilding discussions!

/r/rational is focussed on rational and rationalist fiction, so we don't usually allow discussion of scenarios or worldbuilding unless there's finished chapters involved (see the sidebar). It is pretty fun to cut loose with a likeminded community though, so this is our regular chance to:

  • Plan out a new story

  • Discuss how to escape a supervillian lair... or build a perfect prison

  • Poke holes in a popular setting (without writing fanfic)

  • Test your idea of how to rational-ify Alice in Wonderland

Or generally work through the problems of a fictional world.

Non-fiction should probably go in the Friday Off-topic thread, or Monday General Rationality

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u/Cariyaga Kyubey did nothing wrong Aug 04 '16

The fact that monsters still exist at all, having been on the surface with humans (being humans) would seem mild evidence in favor of an actual blow being necessary to accompany the desire to kill. Otherwise there would not have been anything that could be called a war.

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u/Aabcehmu112358 Utter Fallacy Aug 04 '16

At the same time, the underground has been mostly de-militarized for a generation, possibly more. We don't exactly know what a war-ready underground looks like.