The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #113211 Message #2419570
Posted By: Don Firth
21-Aug-08 - 01:21 PM
Thread Name: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
". . . if ideally" [??] "the law of the land and the culture of the land are closely linked. . . ."
The only places in the world where this is the case is in autocratic theocracies such as Afghanistan under the Taliban.
"Ideally?"
Absolutely not! You may as well have a nation of robots.* A society dominated by conformity, restriction, prohibition, and oppression.
Don Firth
*Robot Etymology: Czech, from robota, compulsory labor; slave.