And hey, huge chronic unemployment (more than in the US), conformity, deference to authority, hostility to immigrants, near universal military conscription, scarcity of entrepreneurship, heavy government meddling in media, cultural stagnation, and political stagnation - in short, a lack of freedom - are well worth the benefits of welfare! Hey, it's free!
and yes, the theory is based on a review of hte historical evidence: records of trials, their outcomes, the method of ordeal, etc.
very interesting. wouldn't work today, as it relies on a believing, religious population.
very open to corruption by the judges.
the witch hysterias were aided by the ease of corruption, and were politically motivated (though in some cases, like Salem, were likely actual cases of mass hysteria)
Hermes: (monotonous) I suggest we all go to the Brain Slug planet. Fry: What do we do there? Hermes: (monotonous) Just walk around, not wearing a helmet.
How's one-child-per family working in China these days? Popular policy, no?
If I wanted to hear advice on ruthless tyranny on a scale the world has rarely ever witnessed, I'll make sure to talk to the nice folks in Beijing.
Funny how the same people who have spent the last few generations enforcing some of the most dystopian, centrally planned reproductive policies ever invented are now advocating, wait for it, some of the most dystopian, centrally planned reproductive policies ever invented.
Why is it that every "solution" our masters propose to solve every goddamn problem in the world involves giving *more* control to the people that already wield it? And we're supposed to ignore the fact that this advice is coming from some of the worst monsters ever to wield it, and that it shores up their power?
Is that just a coincidence? And everyone should just go with the flow? Or am I just being an f*ing idiot troll?
(cuz they can't really "think" can they?)
And hey, huge chronic unemployment (more than in the US), conformity, deference to authority, hostility to immigrants, near universal military conscription, scarcity of entrepreneurship, heavy government meddling in media, cultural stagnation, and political stagnation - in short, a lack of freedom - are well worth the benefits of welfare! Hey, it's free!
more detailed summary:
http://reason.com/archives/2010/02/01/trial-by-ordeal
and yes, the theory is based on a review of hte historical evidence: records of trials, their outcomes, the method of ordeal, etc.
very interesting. wouldn't work today, as it relies on a believing, religious population.
very open to corruption by the judges.
the witch hysterias were aided by the ease of corruption, and were politically motivated (though in some cases, like Salem, were likely actual cases of mass hysteria)
Fry: What do we do there?
Hermes: (monotonous) Just walk around, not wearing a helmet.
How's one-child-per family working in China these days? Popular policy, no?
If I wanted to hear advice on ruthless tyranny on a scale the world has rarely ever witnessed, I'll make sure to talk to the nice folks in Beijing.
Funny how the same people who have spent the last few generations enforcing some of the most dystopian, centrally planned reproductive policies ever invented are now advocating, wait for it, some of the most dystopian, centrally planned reproductive policies ever invented.
Why is it that every "solution" our masters propose to solve every goddamn problem in the world involves giving *more* control to the people that already wield it? And we're supposed to ignore the fact that this advice is coming from some of the worst monsters ever to wield it, and that it shores up their power?
Is that just a coincidence? And everyone should just go with the flow? Or am I just being an f*ing idiot troll?