Kasz216 said:
Also worth noting that the hunger games happened because there was an overarching overcontrolling central government. The districts rebelled and were defeated, and were then forced to live by EXTREMELY excessive regulations that pretty much kept them all in place and made it so they couldn't feed themselves even with plenty of ability to do so if not for the government preventing them from doing so. The hunger games were the sign of the central governments dominance and control, and how the plebes in the outer districts should stay in there place and remember not to fight for their rights. Essentially the hunger games happened specifically because of a lack of respect for a rights based ethical system.
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That credo alone is sufficient to build an ethical system around? The trend of this discussion is individuals arguing that credo alone is sufficient.
In regards to The Hunger Games, if one happens to see it ONLY has a a totalitarian government at work, one misses how the games themselves are structured and the message the writer was trying to discuss. And the critiques aren't focused on free will, but barbarism. A number of other stories have touched on the same subject:
http://www.salon.com/2012/03/14/what_came_before_the_hunger_games/
Rollerball in particular, is one. It takes in a corporate run future, where the violent game Rollerball is the top sport:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073631/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollerball_(1975_film)
The focus of these stories are on barbaric states societies can let themselves fall into, and their horrors. But hey, so long as no one is coersed, why be concerned about it?
