The Purge

[DJ123]

Reference the film with this title, do you think this would work in a modern society?

of course not.

[Matt-EUC]

Doubt it very much. There are a few things I'd like to do, however.

No killing though.

[BanannaMan]

Silly premise to think criminals would limit themselves to one night.
If anything it would just make them worse as criminals usually don't follow the rules.
Why not wait till the all clear is sounded and then knock off or rob anyone you like.
The police can't be everywhere.

[L3nny]

I never understood why the people who wanted to stay out of it just didn't go abroad on Purge day.

Why would normal law abiding citizens suddenly want to kill a random stranger one day of the year?

What about insurance? Who pays to clean the mess up? Hospitals are closed on purge day if you've been shot but what if you've had a genuine accident? What if you were shot 2 mins before the end of the purge? Will they admit you before you bleed to death? What about crimes that will affect people long term like filing a fraudulent insurance claim?

There would have to be so many rules governing the rules of the purge you may as well not bother.

[Balky001]

No it would not work. It would mean there were few decent people and more evil/mental people left at the end of it. I think they cost of post traumatic stress counselling would be pretty massive too

Define work. Given that there are a number of less then scrupulous very wealthy people, some of whom already own a small army, I don't think it would end well for the 99%. There were people at the top of companies who were perfectly happy to lay of 1000's of people using the crisis as an excuse (not many, but some). I don't think they'd wait 10 years for a good recession, and go through the hassle of actually laying people off when they could just send some heavies round to kill them once a year, much cheaper and easier.

[DJ123]

Originally Posted by L3nny

I never understood why the people who wanted to stay out of it just didn't go abroad on Purge day.

Why would normal law abiding citizens suddenly want to kill a random stranger one day of the year?

What about insurance? Who pays to clean the mess up? Hospitals are closed on purge day if you've been shot but what if you've had a genuine accident? What if you were shot 2 mins before the end of the purge? Will they admit you before you bleed to death? What about crimes that will affect people long term like filing a fraudulent insurance claim?

There would have to be so many rules governing the rules of the purge you may as well not bother.

Lets say that 1000 people get 'purged' & they were all on full benefits-housing, JSA, etc etc which is going to be in the region of £15k+ per year. You've just saved £15,000,000. Clean up should be fairly easy as you could say that all bodies from the purge are considered to be donors for organs, body parts etc (if they aren't entirely full of holes).
War rules-somehow a war has rules that are enforced!

[LewSpeight]

Can someone please explain this "Keith_D" that keeps cropping up in these polls haha

[Scoobs]

Originally Posted by LewSpeight

Can someone please explain this "Keith_D" that keeps cropping up in these polls haha

It's in reference to the original keithd (small k small d) who would invariably add an "I don't care" option. Laterly known as the keithd option.

There's some forum history for you right there.

PS - Had to vote keithd