The choice of successor should of course be up to the monarch. It need not be primogeniture.
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But let's say I choose from my courtiers. The selection pressure at my court will be brutal and select for the wrong things.
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All that before I can even make a choice, and it has to be well informed by... well probably my intelligence service.
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I think the choice would come down to a small group of nobles directly in the kings service. No mediation required.
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Choosing from your nobles ends in heredity (eventually one will appoint their own bloodline).
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it might be inevitable given a highly clannish culture but outbred NW Europeans? It's at least not easily fated.
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I'm familiar with HBD, yes. However I just couldn't parse the "but outbred NW Europeans" part.
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I'm saying it is less likely that an outbred NW European society will result in clannish or familial/inbred corruption.
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modern NWE I assume? Royals have always worked differently, they have other incentives for children as the middle class has.
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Inbred royalty may pose a small problem, but I believe it is overplayed.
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Especially when you use a more modern selection mechanism, yes. Many of the medieval mechanisms behind nobility have broken.
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Also, there is another, better, option, not royalty but neocameralism. A CEO selected by stockholders.
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That selects for sociopaths though :/
(Or puts the market entirely in charge which is a bad idea)
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