video; backdated to shortly after Meriken's "let's find America a date" post.

[cautious_knight]

Are there really no simple social rules in the future that people do still follow?

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[2ndhandlion.livejournal.com]

There are.

And there are people who think ignoring them makes them somehow cool.

[watchful-knight.livejournal.com]

Meriken told me that everyone was ignoring the little rules that were left.

[2ndhandlion.livejournal.com]

The people who ignore the rules always like to believe that. They probably feel a little remorse for being morons, so they validate it by claiming everyone else is the same way.

[watchful-knight.livejournal.com]

She called me "stiff".

...What rules are there?

[2ndhandlion.livejournal.com]

Most people still get married; usually to someone of close to the same age, but that doesn't matter so much as long as they're both adults.
Adultery is still a bad thing.

[watchful-knight.livejournal.com]

So... you still court someone with the prospect of marrying them?

[reckless-eagle.livejournal.com]

Like, what are you talking about, Liet?

[watchful-knight.livejournal.com]

Meriken told me that almost nobody gets married anymore in her time, and that dating isn't for that, and with how girls run around and how they view- other things...

I don't say that everything is bad, but I- I'm not sure if it is good.

[reckless-eagle.livejournal.com]

Wait, what? Sketchy! Does that like, even make any sense? I mean, America's Christian! Isn't she supposed to be like him?! Ohmigod, so not cool!

[watchful-knight.livejournal.com]

She said that it was still supposed to be in theory, but nobody follows it anymore.

[reckless-eagle.livejournal.com]

Totally not okay! We're like, gonna have to give her an intervention!

[watchful-knight.livejournal.com]

I tried to talk to her but she said that I was just being backwards. Not those words, but...

[He doesn't like the sound of this ;;]

[mashespotatoes.livejournal.com]

That really depends on who you ask. but I imagine there have always been people who haven't shown a high level of appreciation for social conventions.

[watchful-knight.livejournal.com]

Meriken said that most people, or almost everyone, didn't follow them anymore.

[Voice]

[crymogaea.livejournal.com]

What kind of simple social rules?

[Voice]

[watchful-knight.livejournal.com]

Not whoring yourself around, for example.

[Voice]

[crymogaea.livejournal.com]

[ Horrified silence. And mental refined facepalm. ]

Depends on which Nation you're talking about. France is famous for that. I don't whore myself around, for one.

[Voice]

[watchful-knight.livejournal.com]

But- But he's Christian!

[Has been Christian for longer than most other nations.]

[Voice]

[crymogaea.livejournal.com]

[ Long pause. ]

See, uh, in the future, religion doesn't matter much. Unless you were talking about Vatican... Who is this Nation you're talking about, actually?

[ He's uh...pretty sketchy on religion, actually. It's most likely that he's an Agnostic. ]

[Voice]

[watchful-knight.livejournal.com]

...How can it not?

[OxO There has never been a time when religion didn't count. Because it was never that much of a personal thing as it is now. Thus Lithuania is just ...don't those people care for their nations anymore?]

The one who brought this up? Meriken. The other America.

[idkmybfftony.livejournal.com]

Huh?

[watchful-knight.livejournal.com]

Meriken said-

America, why would you court a person?

[idkmybfftony.livejournal.com]

The same reason anyone else would?

Well, are we talking nations? Or..

[watchful-knight.livejournal.com]

What would that be, in your time?

That doesn't matter.

[idkmybfftony.livejournal.com]

Well, a lot of my people go on dates, see how they get along together. Sometimes they move in together before hand, but it always depends. Then they get married and have kids, or adopt.

It... is different, though. I mean, I never tried to court a nation before... don't bosses decide that?