unfortunatly i agree with himNaridill said:Kingdoms have always been awesome. I think we should get to vote between the children of a king whenever the king dies, and he/she will be a sovereign monarch.
Ursca said:Germanic monarchy always seemed a good idea.
13 Spider Bloody Chain said:The problem with a good dictator who is in control of everything is that said ruler can mess up (and do so quite badly), no?
Ursca said:Not really. Feudal positions are hereditary.
The knights fight for the king in return for land, and the peasants work the land in return for protection from their local knight.
Yoshiboy said:How can you test intelligence anyway? IQ testing is hardly viable. Half of it is just based on vocabulary. Also intelligence does not necessary mean you understand politics or the world around you. NOT TO MENTION a certain level of people skills are needed to make a good judge of the society you are in. There is no way to get rid of the stupid assholes and stop them doing stupid things.
13 Spider Bloody Chain said:And anyone who gets it wrong and tries to argue that the nationality wasn't specified needs a good flogging.
Papa Lazarou said:It seems to me that the "uneducated masses" (who the hell are they by the way? ever got to know one?) should cancel each other out somewhat as it is. If it weren't for the inevitably unequal representation of the parties/leaders, statistically those who vote on whims would have their votes spread evenly, leaving the informed voters to decide. Getting equal representation is the trick and probably near impossible.
Mage246 said:The odds of people voting on a whim and coming up 50/50 are the same as the odds of people voting 70/30, or 60/40, or 13/87, and so on and so forth. You would not expect random voting to come up evenly, that's not statistically true. Just goes to show that mass voting isn't really done on a whim at all.
Papa Lazarou said:If you flip 100,000 coins wouldn't you get about 50,000 heads and 50,000 tails? My point was that if information about the parties/candidates/whatever came from a completely impartial (impossible I know) source, then the parially informed votes would cancel each other out.