[yocheckit]

It didn't make me question my beliefs because at the time I didn't really have any. But the opening of Bioshock and Andrew Ryan's monologue got me thinking about that stuff for the 1st time.

"I am Andrew Ryan, and I'm here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? "No," says the man in Washington, "it belongs to the poor." "No," says the man in the Vatican, "it belongs to God." "No," says the man in Moscow, "it belongs to everyone." I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose... Rapture. A city where the artist would not fear the censor; where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality; where the great would not be constrained by the small! And with the sweat of your brow, Rapture can become your city as well."

It really got me thinking about who makes demands on whom about what in society.

[mthwl]

It's been a while, but if I recall, wasn't Bioshock's plot a rather on the nose critique of these ideas? Particularly objectivism?

Since the city was eventually destroyed by research/monsters created by these scientists "not bound by petty morality" and their exploitation by the wealthy class?

[ptah]

the washington one is incorrect. it should read "it belongs to corporations and 'job creators'"

[cryptonode]

Every time I read that paragraph I'm reminded of the book Atas Shrugged. Where Ayn Rand lays out her philosophy of objectivism.

[crtasm]

The game's plot is directly referencing Rand, there's also a pivotal character called Atlas.