“Torture is such a slippery slope as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.”
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My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state.
In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.
