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<blockquote data-quote="Zappo" data-source="post: 395950" data-attributes="member: 633">You know, I sorta agree with the general principles underlying that stuff - reason above superstition, survival of the race the main priority (well, who doesn't agree with that?), education immediately after... but they have been taken to an unhealthy extreme. #47 is right in comparing that to Marxism: good ideas with bad (and probably impossible) implementation.Also, there are some basic flaws. #4 contradicts #12. #16 is not based in logic, which they praise as the source of their moral, but in opinion (save for that virus thingy - but please, thorough health controls are enough to solve that). #4 seems to suggest that education and genetics have something in common, which they don't. The idea of requiring degrees in physics to access politics is insane - they say it's so that people with a logical mind wield the power, but then isn't it simpler and more effective to institute a degree in politics with that objective and an appropriate training? Finally, I see no reason not to tell fairy tales (or play D&amp;D)... if the population is so smart, they should have no problem in separating reality from fiction, shouldn't they?Overall, it might work as a RPG setting, but IRL? Not a chance.D&amp;D PHBs have been pointed out as semi-official resources for witchcraft and satanism. Basically anything that irks some fundamentalist or another has been pointed out as a semi-official resource for witchcraft and other things.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Zappo, post: 395950, member: 633"] You know, I sorta agree with the general principles underlying that stuff - reason above superstition, survival of the race the main priority (well, who doesn't agree with that?), education immediately after... but they have been taken to an unhealthy extreme. #47 is right in comparing that to Marxism: good ideas with bad (and probably impossible) implementation. Also, there are some basic flaws. #4 contradicts #12. #16 is not based in logic, which they praise as the source of their moral, but in opinion (save for that virus thingy - but please, thorough health controls are enough to solve that). #4 seems to suggest that education and genetics have something in common, which they don't. The idea of requiring degrees in physics to access politics is insane - they say it's so that people with a logical mind wield the power, but then isn't it simpler and more effective to institute a degree in politics with that objective and an appropriate training? Finally, I see no reason not to tell fairy tales (or play D&D)... if the population is so smart, they should have no problem in separating reality from fiction, shouldn't they? Overall, it might work as a RPG setting, but IRL? Not a chance.[i]D&D PHBs[/i] have been pointed out as semi-official resources for witchcraft and satanism. Basically anything that irks some fundamentalist or another has been pointed out as a semi-official resource for witchcraft and other things. [/QUOTE]

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