by ReverseEngineer » Sun 15 Mar 2009, 22:59:05
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SeaGypsy', 'T')he problem I have with the Inquisition is that it serves another bunch of elites. Millions of women were burned at the stake for such witchcraft as midwifery, herbal medicine, failing to acknowlege the virgin birth and saviour, or simply questioning the authority of the Church or fuedal Lord in power over their lives. Refusing to submit your 1st born daughters to rape by the Lord was punishable by banishment or death.
I hope RE is not really suggesting a repeat of this hideous manipulation by the Catholic Church? Because if so I will be fighting the Church with as much vigor as I would fight a Fascist State.

Well, I certainly wouldn't want the Catholics to run the Inquisition this time. They picked all the WRONG people to burn at the stake. The key is to construct your legal system so the RIGHT people are found GUILTY. One good test might be to have a Pigman fill his pockets with as much Gold as he is worth and see if he floats. If he sinks, he's Guilty

Or you could drop a Gold Brick from the top of a tree on his head. If it bounces off his head he's Innocent. If you have gray matter staining the sidewalk, he was Guilty. Or you could feed him Gold Coins for a month and if he doesn't starve, he's Innocent also.
Now of course you will argue that now you have a NEW Elite, the Inquisitors. You don't want to give anyone that kind of power for too long, so basically you Rotate your Inquisitors through the population. Everybody gets to be Inquisitor for a day. It would behoove you NOT to piss anybody else off by sucking up their wealth, because of course you'll eventually have to face that person down in the Inquisition. To keep the mayhem down, you could limit the number of people a given Inquistor can try in a day to 10 maybe?
This Inquisition isn't about who you think the right God is, its about the MONEY. Its about how you treat your fellow man. This is a lot more tangible than trying to figure out who the right God is, so I think it can be done more fairly than the Spanish Inquisition. Its a lot easier to figure out who a complete Scumbag is than it is to figure out who the right God is of course.
Is it a perfect solution? Of course its not. No doubt, a few Innocent Eggs will get broken here along with the Guilty Eggs. Regardless, we clearly are in need of a Social Enema here. The shit has been backing up for far too long in the colon of society. Once you flush the worst of the offenders down the toilet here though, we'll be a lot better off. I think few people in the future would be interested in becoming filthy rich if the consequences were being charged in an Auto da fe, don't you?
Reverse Engineer