Welcome to Earth: Government and Ethics in the 21st century

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Hello, Forum.
If anyone would care to indulge in a discussion of an ideal system of government (it's ok to laugh at this idea).

Does an ideal system of government exist?
The answers that people have given in the past have sometimes led to freedom, sometimes to oppression, and sometimes to industrial-scale murder of the very people the system was written to serve.

This document is something that I've been working on for a few weeks now (but thinking about for much longer). I've been developing this idea for how to fix some things and prepare for technologically-induced emergencies that haven't yet occurred, but will occur very soon. This is also meant to be a scientifically literate world-view that aims to treat people all fairly (equality under the law), and is meant to make life as comfortable and productive as possible for people who are good to each other.

The idea is still in flux, and the document itself is very much a work in progress. The mechanics of how the idea works are thought out, but not yet completely transcribed. Only hints exist in the doc at this point. I will work on writing these in during the coming week. There is an RSS feed in the doc if you would like to be kept current.

I've decided to post this in a forum full of aspies because I think people like us might be in a better disposition to think about ethics dispassionately rather than form knee-jerk emotional reactions to problems of an unsolvable ethical nature. It is also my hope that there are enough logic-driven minds out there to rip my ideas apart and help me refine them. If anyone feels inclined to contribute to what I have written, please send to my e-mail addy (given in the doc) or post it to this forum so that it can be debated. PM me if you feel more comfortable doing things that way.

All well-thought-out commentary will be carefully considered. I will read every post.

Please help and issue feedback. I cannot do these things alone. And they will never get done if they aren't in the collective unconscious in a unified form.