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The worship of regional gods, which was common throughout the world for most of history until recently, lends itself to this particular mode of operation. The gods are each responsible for a geographi …

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 …

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, …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The biggest challenge will be recovery of normal society after massive destruction of infrastructure. In wars, destruction is not random. …

The bugeisha (warrior lady) was typically the of a high caste warrior family. The tradition predates the establishment of a formal samaurai class, but persisted until at least the late 19th century. …

History offers some examples. Germany elected Hitler because he promised to restore Germany as an economic power. He became the Fuhrer (chief) and kaiser (Caesar / emperor) once his National Sociali …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …