Talk:Equalists/@comment-201.42.191.207-20121115021441/@comment-1216259-20130127070834

Empires are not called fascist because fascism wasn't coined until Mussolini. By modern standards, many empires would be considered fascist. Their rulers weren't necessarily good people.

For similar reasons, I strongly disagree with your governance priorities. Tradition is a terrible thing to base laws on. It doesn't matter if a custom is outdated or even barbaric, it is resistant to change, because it has a strong history of legal protection. Look at slavery, spectral evidence and other witch hunting procedures, sodomy laws, laws that say women are property, overrating eye witness testimony, reluctance to investigate religious institutions accused of abuse, legal sanctioning against other religious institutions, etc.

Contrast that with science. Science should not be the whole of government, because science is required to be divorced as much as possible from biases, nor is it perfect, as it must be carried out by humans. However, science is how we strike down support for these old, illogical laws, and build support for new ones.