witches were the original x-risk. few realize this
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except witchcraft and sorcery, they'd kill the fuck out of you for that
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starting an hbd blog wherein I argue witches were real but generations of culling have eliminated genetic ability for witchcraft
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this is perfect
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I wish exile were a viable punishment again.
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the problem is there's nowhere to exile them to without pissing off another sovereign entity, it is only a coherent punishment when..
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...there is Civilization and The Wilds. even then it doesn't have the same heft, it is easy for us to say "oh well whatever I'll...
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...go live in poland or something I guess". the terror of the punishment was cutting one off from tribe and kin, a fate worse than...
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...death for many. for us those bonds are already severed
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I could see exile coming back if we go full, cosompolitan economic elites and servant caste in closed quasi-autonomous city-states...
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...with a vast wilderness outside dominated by warlords and despots, not an unlikely near-future scenario imo
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"city-states" probably a misnomer, world cities already share a culture and would likely operate as a federation
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