Isn't that what Ted Kaczynski said about lefties
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Of course, those laws are going to have a distinctly Catholic flavour to them and if that's not your cup of tea then you're probably better off moving somewhere else. The Right of exit, is of course sacrosanct for all law abiding subjects.
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Not against autonomous city states but I doubt it's feasible in the current state of geopolitics. Defense requires cooperation on a grander scale than city states, and whoever heads such a military federation will be a de facto emperor
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Better a formal emperor than an informal pseudo emperor of a federated state, who refuses to take their borders seriously, nor lets anyone else enforce them.
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Agreed. My point is that, just like now, there's no guarantee the emperor isn't as horrid as present day globalists. I think it's esentially impossible engineer out corruption of any system involving humans, but making all roles leadership unpleasant in some way would be a start
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Making leadership hereditary is one of the more effective ways to keep sociopaths out of the top spot. As soon as you have a competitive selection process, you'll end up selecting for sociopaths.
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But once you remove all meritocracy there's always the risk of a decadent wastrel inheriting power. Or worse (like Caligula)
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Perfect is the enemy of good. Trouble with explaining this is that most of the failsafes are built into the religious aspects of the state and fedoras don't care about that.
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There's an absolute metric shit ton of accumulated social technology that got unceremoniously jettisoned, because various waves of "enlightenment" movements felt they were constraining the unfettered power of the state needed to implement their grand visions.
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