All Questions
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Why would all drugs be legalised? [closed]
In my world, there is a species from the Homo genus named Homo magicus. They are my wizards (or sorcerers, if you want).
Traditionally, magical humans/wizards/sorcerers are an EXTREMELY religious race:...
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Can Global Disasters caused by Bearers (People with Terrible Luck) be Properly Contained?
The Bearer: Background
On Alternate Earth, studies and cases have shown that a small percentage of the population (10%) is responsible for 90% of the bad luck.
These people are targeted by bad luck, ...
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If a human own the planet, by proprety law, what can he do? [closed]
Let me explain myself
the term "Owning the planet" refer to the possession, the control a person intentionally exercises toward a thing, here, the planet and what it's composed of.
The concept of "...
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Can you train primates to perform every day jobs that humans perform today?
I want to know how / if we could train monkeys to do a variety of human tasks. Is it possible to teach monkeys human trades and set them free throughout major cities to do jobs and interact with ...
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Why zero tolerance on nudity in space?
Set in the immediate future, mankind visits Titan, moon of Saturn for the first time. A manned space station goes into orbit around the moon once every 4-5 hours. Actually there have been many people ...
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Building a kafkaesque bureaucracy
Query
I intend to build a fictional civilization which operates solely via a sprawling Kafkaesque bureaucracy. My question is this: what conditions are necessary to incentivize the generation and ...
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Possible punishment for breaking birth control law [closed]
In near future earth become overpopulated. The most populated countries issued birth control law. However,the government is unable to provide everyone with contraceptive, especially in poor countries.
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How would criminal justice works today if humans evolved hive mind? [closed]
Say the early humans not only invented tools but they also evolved swarm intelligence, think of the behavior in shoal of fish and swarms of bees.
Now fast forward to the present day, there is a ...
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Why would the government ban mind uploading when humans are biologically immortal? [closed]
The year is 2317 C.E.
Assume all existing humans were bitten by radioactive "water-bears" or tardigrades. Ignore statistics and disregard murphy's law. Every human can live forever, unless due to ...
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Freelance detectives [closed]
Bad guys will do bad things, no matter how far in the future we go to. Even with space travel and other lifeforms to live alongside humanity, crime will rear its ugly head no anywhere, anytime. So ...
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Could an omniscient creature replace judges in trials?
In my world, an Omniscient creature exists.
We don't know how it got here, or if it was created, but it's real, and it's been "willing" to help humans for a long time now. However, every thing we ...
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Humans can now fly. What new laws are created?
Let's pretend for a moment that, right now, everybody on Earth was given the ability of flight. What new legislation would have to be passed to regulate this ability?
Physical restrictions on the ...
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New inhabited invisible island appears - how do they make first contact legally?
One day, a new island appears in the middle of Earth's ocean, inhabited with humans who have lived there all their lives (but in another dimension). The island is not visible to anyone outside a 25 ...
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Human population vs. rising ocean levels
Because the Earth is a (effectively) closed system and matter can neither be created nor destroyed, only moved or transformed, a wild theory was proposed that increasing the human population could be ...
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Aliens are evicting us from the earth; how much time should they give us?
One night, we see a giant laser from outer space burn a message into the Moon (in some human language or another):
Earth Creatures, you are hereby evicted from Earth. Take your belongings and leave ...
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Human rights in space
We've done it. We've finally devised the technology that will allow us to safely and efficiently leave Earth behind and explore our corner of the galaxy. We're still working on the intergalactic ...
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Will politics be able to update with the future technology?
Technology is going to bring drastic changes to society. Modern politics needs serious rethinking in order to keep up with the evolving technology. In the future we will have enormous social injustice ...
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