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Would superhuman elites allow for more liberal governance?
Important question: is the Super Aristocracy up for doing "public works"? Or are they fine just sitting on their super-asses all day doing nothing of importance?
The reason Im asking is that ...
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Would superhuman elites allow for more liberal governance?
If your ruling class is too small for their territory, say a king, his family and a few ducal families, it would probably not change much, because even with Superman or Super Saiyan level of powers, ...
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Would superhuman elites allow for more liberal governance?
The aristocratic guys would fight each other. And that would be a way, where even a commoner could get a revenge on an aristocratic.
We are actually quite liberal rulers of the pigs. Or of the horses. ...
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Would superhuman elites allow for more liberal governance?
You are not asking the right question
This is a form of Frame Challenge - with a monopoly on power- your system could easily turn into China or North Korea.
However, let's assume that the desire is to ...
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Would superhuman elites allow for more liberal governance?
You can't just answer this as yes or no.
Historically, any time we're put in a position where one side has unquestioned superiority, the superior ones decide that the inferior ones are less than human....
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Would superhuman elites allow for more liberal governance?
No.
Your rulers would not just need to be safe from attack from commoners, they need to be able to coerce them to pay taxes, etc. Otherwise they are not rulers, they are a separate and unconnected ...
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Would superhuman elites allow for more liberal governance?
Depends
Whether they can keep the peace is more about the interpersonal relationships between the elites.
Throughout history we can see many elites that were pretty certain about their position. ...
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Would superhuman elites allow for more liberal governance?
"Will this policy manage to maintain the peace?"
No. A real society is more complex than just a united ruling class and a united commoner class. There will still be intra-class conflict. ...
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Would superhuman elites allow for more liberal governance?
Classical Athens was a splendid democracy, provided one was an Athenian citizen. To be an Athenian citizen, one had to be a man born of an Athenian father and an Athenian mother.
Rome was never a ...
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Would superhuman elites allow for more liberal governance?
I don't remember of any concept of "liberal" government in pre-Christian Europe: everywhere there was always a clear and sharp distinction between "us" and "them". "...
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Does it make sense for the governments of my world to genetically engineer soldiers?
Governments are unlikely to get away with mandatory soldier mods... but I expect subsidies would be very popular. Include a few soldier genes in your new kid's design, and the government will pay for ...
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Does it make sense for the governments of my world to genetically engineer soldiers?
The true militaristic goal is intelligence
Bit of a frame challenge here. The best soldier is one that doesn't even have to fire once.
James Bond, John wick, Ethan Hunt. All 'super soldiers' in thrir ...
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Does it make sense for the governments of my world to genetically engineer soldiers?
Military-targeted genetic engineering doesn't make a lot of sense when it is required that the mod be applied at the time of conception. Unless you can say for certain "this baby's gonna grow up ...
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Does it make sense for the governments of my world to genetically engineer soldiers?
Public Liability laws
The other answers are good, but lets go with a bit of a more fun one. Soldiering is a dangerous business. With the exception of a full-scale war happening, more Soldiers die in ...
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Does it make sense for the governments of my world to genetically engineer soldiers?
Assuming no inherent risks in the augmentation process it entirely depends on the degree of advantage that can be gained by the soldiers over and above their average opponent, or the degree of ...
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Does it make sense for the governments of my world to genetically engineer soldiers?
"Supersoldiers" are overhyped. The usual package of a genetically engineered soldier, like super-strenght, stamina, speed and durability, are not even remotely as useful as fiction would ...
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Does it make sense for the governments of my world to genetically engineer soldiers?
Probably few military-specific modifications
"Amateurs think tactics, professionals think logistics". In a world where armies are muscle-propelled and most of their weapons are muscle-...
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Can there be a country that favors girl babies?
Haïti: http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol23/36/23-36.pdf – 7.4% said they wanted a son while 23.2% said they wanted a daughter. (Most wanted a mix of sons and daughters).
http://public....
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How bad would near constant dreary/gloomy/stormy weather on our or an Earthlike world be for us and the environment?
My question is how would this affect the world?
It would affect selected industries, such as the tourism industry, the solar power industry, and parts of the agricultural industry (we would grow ...
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How bad would near constant dreary/gloomy/stormy weather on our or an Earthlike world be for us and the environment?
It depends on the incoming sunlight at the ground.
As I understand, the effect of that "haze" is global. So there are no zones with "normal" weather, which would get "normal ...
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How bad would near constant dreary/gloomy/stormy weather on our or an Earthlike world be for us and the environment?
Life will be fine as long as it's not the result of rapid climate change.
The rainiest place in the world is Mawsynram India which gets 11,800 millimeters (465 inches) of rain per year. Yet, despite ...
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Can there be a country that favors girl babies?
Yes. There are subcultures in which girls are more likely to receive medical care than boys are.
To transfer to this to a country: It is a poor country, and nearby there is a richer country that ...
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Can there be a country that favors girl babies?
Post-total war. Cobalt-60 and other isotopes taint the land and sea. There are countless pockets of organophosphate neurotoxin contamination, and frequent plagues of the new deadly viruses.
To ...
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How to justify a ban on exclusivist religions?
Since it is satire:
How about ban on monopolies?
Religion, from a government standpoint, is a service. An important one, that is.
Then again, enforcing anti-monopoly legislation over food industry, ...
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How to justify a ban on exclusivist religions?
In the Valdemar series of books Mercedes Lackey has a very simple guidance rule: "There is no one true way."
This means that any religion is acceptable as long as they allow all people to ...
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How to justify a ban on exclusivist religions?
Monotheism is Subversive
Cæsar Eleison
There's no need to reinvent the wheel; the Romans already answered your question two thousand years ago.
When the Roman Empire was going through its first few ...
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How to justify a ban on exclusivist religions?
Please excuse the plagiarism of another answer, I prefer to think of it as 'appropriation".
Thank you for contacting the Congressional Record. Please find attached the text of the The Theological ...
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How to justify a ban on exclusivist religions?
Monotheism is too positively branded. How about exclusivist faith?
Thank you for contacting the Congressional Record. Please find attached the text of the The Theological Inclusivity and Divine ...
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How to justify a ban on exclusivist religions?
Outlaw any religions whose equivalent of a Bible advocates violence to other religions or puts itself above secular law. This allows you to send in the armed forces to quell any uprising or ...
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How to justify a ban on exclusivist religions?
Thou shalt honor all Gods and not put one before the other.
a very solid, rationally sounding justification for this,
Dishonoring a God dishonors the followers of that God and harms all followers of ...
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Why would Space Colonies even want to secede?
It all comes down to a difference in economic interests.
From the perspective of the nation on Earth:
some of the colonies are self-sufficient, which means there's very little we can offer them
but ...
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Why would Space Colonies even want to secede?
They Have More in Common With B,C,& D:
Your colonists are space dwellers. Their economics are driven by different factors than planet dwellers. 180 or even 50 years is plenty of time for the ...
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Why would Space Colonies even want to secede?
Like most U.S. citizens, I can't help but think of the American Revolution on this topic, and I think it makes a great case study here. After all, you even specifically state that the colonizing ...
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Why would Space Colonies even want to secede?
Plain old simple political manipulation of 'remote' and physically isolated communities.
In the scenario outlined in your post there are two possible sources of this manipulation, one external, one ...
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Why would Space Colonies even want to secede?
Agency, Efficiency, Fairness, and Values
Agency
Imagine for a moment that something relatively innocuous that you do regularly is suddenly made illegal - drinking apple juice, playing poker on friday ...
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Why would Space Colonies even want to secede?
The same reason that as at any time in history - a Voice not being heard and a need not being met - being too far removed from the levers of power, whilst being beholden to its rules
The concerns of a ...
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Why would Space Colonies even want to secede?
Colonialism Suppresses the Would Be Aristocracy
Colonies are by definition not run by their own governments. When you look at the British colonization of America for example, the founding fathers ...
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Why would Space Colonies even want to secede?
A difference of destiny
The United States seceded from the UK despite ties of blood and sharing a common culture, history, and religion, as eventually did Canada, Australia, and other colonies. ...
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