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For questions dealing with how sentient beings interact with each other in a community.
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Why would a country execute criminals only at a certain time of the year?
Pragmatism - an execution is an expensive undertaking of it is attended to in anywhere near the detail that western democracies do. You can stock up on the drugs and handle them assembly line style, w …
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Why would a society base the merits of a person by the abilities of another?
Being a "Guardian" type being is boring unless you have something to do. The anime "Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?" explores this trope using the Greek pantheon.
Out of sheer bored …
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Why don't Vulcans just take the pills?
Real-life answer here: It turns out that actually eliminating emotion, as opposed to its expression, is counter productive.
People with brain damage affecting specific areas of the brain (such as my …
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What would be the difference in the reaction between trained and untrained people during an ...
In a general emergency situation, individual reactions vary widely as you have noted. Training for a particular situation can help, as does a well-established chain of responsibility. However, militar …
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why would a priesthood only accept young children into its ranks?
Charity. Orphans and unwanted children need a place to live and be raised.
Purity. Those raised in the church are uncontaminated by outside influences.
Influence. Younger sons of nobility, who would …
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Why would magic users not try to take over kingdoms?
Once you take it over, you have to run the blasted thing. Leave running the kingdom to those who enjoy that work, whilst the mages play with magic and create special effects that would make George Lu …
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How would a 99% illiterate town/fortress cope with sudden muteness of its population?
The citizens of the beseiged city would adapt the same way that institutionalized hearing impaired children did for centuries before standardized sign language - they would invent their own form of si …
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Could compulsory experience-sharing make a utopia actually work?
Some people honestly enjoy others' suffering. All that compulsory experience sharing would do is intensify existing issues. A sadist would simply get a stronger "fix". A serial killer would get a full …
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Subtleties of the Atlantean language
Have you considered a smartphone or tablet? Image processing and language translation are both partially solved problems, using the same neutral network technology. There are limits .. auto (mis)spel …
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What would be the main challenges of rebuilding civilization after a nuclear war?
The biggest challenge will be recovery of normal society after massive destruction of infrastructure. In wars, destruction is not random. …
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How can a nation of amazons avoid being invaded by their neighbors?
The purpose of an army is so you don't have to use it. With every person trained as a warrior, taking and keeping the island would be much more trouble than it's worth.
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How can you prevent a theocracy from being inevitable when religious leaders have power over...
Priests of nature have little interest in political affairs. Indeed, getting them to pay attention to the affairs of humanity at all is a challenge. Watching a single creature from egg, catterpillar, …
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Are there any good alternates to iron?
There's be no civilization as we know it because we wouldn't be here. Iron is a critical nutrient to vertebrate life, necessary for the creation of red blood cells to transport Oxygen throughout the …
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What if we cancelled property inheritance?
As happened in Britain in the 70s, the. People with significant property will leave the country, taking all of the economy they impact (jobs) with them. The country's economy will tank, and after …
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Why would an immortal make good on his loan?
As recently as WW2, debt was considered a moral failure. An immortal should have no need for debt, and one who goes into debt is automatically a poor risk because they obviously don't know how to mana …
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