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On Mortal Despotism

t3knomanser

12/27/02 11:31 am

I propose this form of Government:
An individual is selected at random from the population, and given a chance to be ruler. They choose wether or not they are interested in this, and if they are, they are ruler for life.

This ruler recieves no security, or protection, and cannot, through thier nearly unlimited power, change those aspects of their rule. Moreover, it is not a crime of any degree, to kill this ruler.

Now that's democracy.

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• timotheophany

  12/27/02 10:48 am (UTC)

  

  Sounds almost perfect, except why wouldn't some ambitious bastard kill just in the hopes that they might be randomly selected as the next leader?

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  • t3knomanser

    12/27/02 11:37 am (UTC)

    

    Oh yeah, I had a brain fart while writing that.
    
    The first ruler is randomly selected, from that point forward, if you kill the leader you are the leader.

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      timotheophany

      12/28/02 01:47 am (UTC)

      

      But that's not so different from how it is now...

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