03-28-2018, 08:50 PM | #251 |
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Berkeley, CA
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Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems
Though the names would be carefully changed. Governments avoid things that are overtly against their founding myth.
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03-28-2018, 09:03 PM | #252 |
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Portland, Oregon
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Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems
Probably. Though it is not impossible for descendants of a slave revolt to enslave others and not think anything of it. They just need a tribalistic rather then a universalistic mentality.
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03-29-2018, 06:15 AM | #253 | |
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Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems
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Warning; contains large slabs of Marxism. (Just so you know...)
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03-29-2018, 10:56 AM | #254 |
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Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems
This could well be because historically, the main basis for slavery has been a combination of "who else will do it?" and "sucks to be you!" - and moral systems with the capacity, desire and authority to outlaw slavery are rare.
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03-29-2018, 02:50 PM | #255 |
Join Date: Dec 2007
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Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems
A constitutional republic in which the elected executive is ritually sacrificed at the end of his term in office. (And yes the Fallout vault in question only lasted 18 years before destroying itself.)
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03-29-2018, 04:51 PM | #256 | |
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Alsea, OR
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Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems
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03-29-2018, 05:10 PM | #257 |
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Berkeley, CA
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Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems
The obvious response is to try and elect a sacrificial figurehead.
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03-29-2018, 06:10 PM | #258 |
Join Date: Dec 2007
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Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems
A "benevolent" dictatorship which requires the dictator to wear a living"crown" which kills a wearer it judges as abusing power or neglecting responsibility.
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03-30-2018, 07:01 AM | #259 | |
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Earth, mostly
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Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems
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Vault-Tec was composed almost exclusively of heartless bastards, you see, who regarded imminent nuclear war as an excellent opportunity to conduct horrific experiments on human subjects. Only a few Vaults were kept free of such experiments, as controls.
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03-30-2018, 12:48 PM | #260 |
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Iceland*
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Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems
You mean a dictatorship of a living crown with zero controls or limits on its rule and a terrified hostage functioning as their chief administrative officer.
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