I’d tell myself I’m going to do it, but chicken out.

Y’all should watch Silo.

It depends on the danger I was told about. If it was poisoned gas like Bad Boy Bubby then I don’t think so. If it was just there are dangerous or violent people out there then maybe.

If there were rumours that the outside world wasn’t actually dangerous that might have swayed me when I was younger but probably not now.

Absolutely. I was teaching English with Mormons in Kiev, UA in 2014 (as a volunteer, I am not Mormon). The nonprofit we were with stressed to us that we should absolutely, under no circumstance, go to Maidan (city center). This was when the revolution was just starting. Of course I went anyway.

At least when I was in Ukraine at that time, all the discord was contained within Maidan and the eastern regions. Life elsewhere went on as usual. I’m not sure if it is the same now. But it felt like going between two worlds.

City? Probably yes. Country? Probably no.

It really depends on the Size of the “cage” and what it has to “offer” to me. (how entertained I am, how well-off I am)

Personally? Probably not. Im not much of a rebel or confident enough to push a boundary like that

But we kinda have something like that irl.

If i remember right

The Amish think technology is evil but some leave and embrace the modern world despite that

OP go watch the movie The Village

That you, Morgoth? Stop trying to trick me into revealing the location of Gondolin.

Is anyone actively trying to stop me from leaving? Is there any punishment for doing so?

Is the “dangerous” outside because of something invisible, like a plague? Or is the “dangerous” a nebulous claim of “nobody goes out there”

I think plenty of people would try it just to say they did, just like the real world.

Got “Freedom Cities” on the mind, eh?

It depends on how sus the people telling me that seemed. I would definitely question, but the desire to see what is on the outside would probably be inversely proportional to how content I was with life on the inside.

If I was like, “This place fucking sucks,” and they said, “TS, there’s nowhere else to go,” I might take my chances.

depends on how difficult it is to leave?

If you look at space.

We are on a walled sphere, and my entire life I’ve been told I can’t survive in space.

Would I visit space? Sure… but I can’t get there.

I’m not moving out of my Fallout Vault, unless Overseer approves or Water Chip fails.

We talking about Gaza or Pyongyang?

It’s not illegal to just jump off the earth into space, but we’ve been told it’s dangerous out there and we can’t breathe and it’s too cold blah blah blah

But I’m pretty happy down there so I don’t feel the need to meet with the Vortigaunts past the artificial black veil our government created to isolate us from the intergalactic gerontocracy