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What are good reasons to create a city/nation in which a government wouldn't let you leave [closed]
I am building a city that the main character will be prohibited to leave from and yet their intentions of entering the city are to save the world form an extra-planer threat. So they have to go in. ...
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Why would a society persecute people who are antisocial misanthropes (sociopaths, psychopaths, narcissists, and sadists)? [closed]
An alternate-historical story is set in a third-world country in 1977 of the Gregorian calendar (the year George Lucas' masterpiece, Star Wars, was released). The country is a Costa Rica pastiche (...
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Hypothetical religion [closed]
If some society had religion that didn't believe in eternal damnation with a maximum sentence in hell being 15 billion years and then all people, even the worst people go to heaven, could this ...
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Is technology a natural consequence of civilization?
Can a civilization be highly evolved as far as culture, ethics, societal norms, laws, language, literature and arts, but not ever come to develop any sort of advanced technology besides main practical ...
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Why would a country persecute people with autism?
A alternate-historical story is set in a third-world country some time in the 70s or 80s. The country operates similarly to any semi-developed country in central or south America. The countryside is ...
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Trial: If an animal has human or near-human intellect, how might a western legal system determine its personhood?
Suppose humans are living in conjunction with several intelligent and communicative species of animals, dogs and cats for example. These animals might be legally considered people; being held ...
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Can my character build an atom bomb? [duplicate]
This person is kinda of a show-off. He wants to build a nuclear weapon simply to impress everyone because he's a smartass.
He means no harm, fissile and explosive components are replaced with inert ...
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Suggestion for appropriate definitions for various levels of 'proof' required at a trial
This is a direct follow up to my last question: How/could a legal system whose punishments were based off of "level of certainty" that crime occured function?
I suggested that a jury can ...
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How/could a legal system whose punishments were based off of "level of certainty" that crime occured function?
Yet another one of my attempts to create an interesting/different feeling for an alternate government, while being functional. I'm asking about a theoretical world that exists, not necessarily ...
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What percentage of people can break laws as they desire before society resides into Chaos?
My question is based on the thought process that if a single individual breaks traffic law, for example jumping the red light, it may not cause much harm or accident, but If everyone does it, things ...
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What measures to regulate/detect/stop criminal use of lethal and stun weapons would be viable and accepted by the public in the near future?
Lets say we have near future, which has both regular guns and energy based stun guns (What would the rules for carry and use of weapons be affected by reliable stun guns?). The government wants ways ...
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Result of a goverment where extra votes can be bought, earned, or lost?
Just an interesting idea for a government, not really sure if it's a good idea, but still interested in the results of one existing.
The idea is for your traditional representative democracy, or ...
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How will police be armed and trained in a world where effective stun guns exist?
This question is in the same world as this one: What would the rules for carry and use of weapons be affected by reliable stun guns? stun weapons exist and abide by all the rules listed in the linked ...
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How would the rules for carry and use of weapons be affected by reliable stun guns?
Imagine an effective ranged stun gun that renders an opponent unconscious is built in the near future and is easily produced. It works like this:
for most people if shot they will be knocked ...
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How to eliminate law from society and still have order?
I want to eliminate law from society without that be perceived as a downgrade to civilization.
What I have so far is along the line of: "In a near/far future, the crew of a space mission stayed in ...
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