The great thing about Rationalia is how much scientific evidence there is to support that human life is significant
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Remember that 1950s experiment which demonstrated empirically that humans are born with rights?
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Human rights are abstract. There's no science experiment which could find them. So in Rationalia, they can't be used as the basis for policy
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Also, "All policy shall be based on the weight of evidence" conspicuously omits an end goal for said policy. Happiness? Wealth? Strength?
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"Rationalia constructs policy in order to hurt its people as much as possible. But in a rigidly evidence-based way!"
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All policy shall be based on the weight of evidence... for how KICKIN' RAD it would be
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That said, it strikes me that laying down concrete axioms and metrics for determining the value of a society is asking for trouble
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To say "this is a number, and the sole purpose of our society is to make the number go higher" is probably a bad idea for most numbers
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Unless it's like a U.N.-adjudicated quality of life index?
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I can speak authoritatively on this topic because I played six turns of Civilization II once
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