Originally Posted by Skallewag
@vometia

I genuinely do think its a bad thing to be a dick to people, but I also recognize that things tend to get bad quickly when the state takes upon itself to prevent things that are "grossly offence".


Could you give some examples of these failed states?

There’s been a lot of nasty regimes past and present, doing nasty things to it’s own population and other populations, but I can’t think of any that got that way by telling it’s subjects to be nice to each other.

The closest I can come up with is the LA of the future in Demolition Man.