21 Mar 2010, 4:04 am
I would put suicide booths all around the cities and towns. Stepping into one and using it would be completely voluntary. It would also be created to perform it's function in the most humane way possible; what ever that may be uncovered to be. I imagine that after a while people with a naturally low resilience would naturally select themselves out of the population. I think this would lead to a generally healthier and happier society in the long term. This is just one idea out a group that I would like to implement and experiment with. People who have a natural tendency toward reckless behaviour could also be encouraged to lower their numbers naturally as it was before modern technology came along. For example, kids that get their driving licenses for the first time and then immediately go driving at top speeds on the roads thereafter. If they crash their cars and are critically injured, I would like to deny them life saving surgery that is possible with modern techniques. I think it would punish the genetic predisposition to 'push too far'. I know I am giving very isolated examples that could be picked apart, but these are the types of policies and ideas I would like to see pursued in a dictatorship role (a hypothetical one). Perhaps then we could have a world less inclined to breed the types of situations like what happened with Lehman Brothers and so on.
Flame away. 
21 Mar 2010, 4:21 am
Flame away.
A wonderful concept for corrupt police to get rid or unwanted witnesses, for disenchanted married couples to murder each other, for all sorts of criminals to commit all sorts of nasty acts.
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29 Mar 2010, 4:53 pm
Invade Jupiter 
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30 Mar 2010, 12:02 am
That conquest would end at the lethal magnetosphere unfortunately. However, the moons of Jupiter would be a lot more feasible and potentially useful.
30 Mar 2010, 8:27 am
That conquest would end at the lethal magnetosphere unfortunately. However, the moons of Jupiter would be a lot more feasible and potentially useful.
And you shall become my first counselor.
30 Mar 2010, 8:32 am
That conquest would end at the lethal magnetosphere unfortunately. However, the moons of Jupiter would be a lot more feasible and potentially useful.
And what would you use the moons of Jupiter for?
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30 Mar 2010, 2:17 pm
That conquest would end at the lethal magnetosphere unfortunately. However, the moons of Jupiter would be a lot more feasible and potentially useful.
And what would you use the moons of Jupiter for?
Under the assumption that there is no life on any of them, each colony would be able to trade the resources of the planetoid they're on. Europa would hold the market for water. Saturn's Titan would hold the market for methane. Io, if a safe place for a colony could be developed, would have loads of geothermal energy to transfer into other forms (e.g., batteries, laser power transfer, etc.)
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30 Mar 2010, 7:25 pm
I would have any and all men who have raped women and/or children castrated. 
I would make birth control a law and using unprotected sex would be illegal. Only men and women who are intelligent, don't drink smoke or do drugs, have healthy genes and will be loving and devoted parents will be allowed to breed, which is the only thing sex is good for anyway. 
They would require a license and have to pass a series of tests if they truly want to have children. If they failed they would be forced to wear a device that would make unprotected sex extremely unpleasant and painful. I would have people who have physically abused other people beaten in prison so that they will feel, perhaps to a smaller degree, the pain, suffering and terror they inflicted on their victims. I would destroy alcohol and cigarettes and anyone caught swearing would have to pay a fine. I would have so-called Hollywood "celebrities" put on a rocketship on a collision course to the sun. I would get rid of all the horrible TV commercials and stupid soap operas and awful reality shows. And I would have my own private animation studio and make excellent cartoon shows and ban all the stupid cartoons that are on TV now.
