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jqm
on Oct 12, 2015
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China’s plan to give every citizen a social credit...
Except the term "enlightened" is most often relative to a groups desired outcomes...
TeMPOraL
on Oct 13, 2015
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That's good enough. It's better to have a stable and reasonable ruler that tries to do the Right Thing (i.e. optimize globally in the scale of country) than everyone trying to have it their - however smart or stupid - way.
jqm
on Oct 13, 2015
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Well I don't fully disagree, but then there are the "enlightened" rulers of ISIS trying to do the "right thing" for humanity...
TeMPOraL
on Oct 13, 2015
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Yeah, I'll grant you that. I guess that I dream of someone pulling off an enlightened semi-dictatorship based on liberal values...
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