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Jan 16, 2011 11:00

Dr. McCoy? Do you make house calls ( Read more... )

question for the masses, for the sake of argument, listen i'm saying something important, research, someone sounds learned, chitty chat chat, worried about luke

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[voice] godbent January 16 2011, 16:21:01 UTC

[Guy?

...Guy. Guy was important, she knows this somehow. But he's asking some inane question. Oh let's humor him]

Japan's been a democratic for a long time, so my answer's moot.

[voice] count_gardios January 16 2011, 16:38:57 UTC

[Hmm. She looks kinda familiar.]

Does that work pretty well for your people?

[voice] godbent January 16 2011, 16:40:26 UTC

Yeah, I guess so. It's got to work fairly well or it wouldn't be on the rise all over the world.

[voice] count_gardios January 16 2011, 16:43:36 UTC

[...FAMILIAR. Someone else has told him this.]

On the rise? So there are other forms of government still in use?

[voice] godbent January 16 2011, 16:47:29 UTC

Yeah, of course. There's plenty of dictatorships and some monarchies and a few Communist states as well. Plus there's some nations which still have proxy rulers despite being democratic - Japan's actually one of them, we have an Emperor, after all.

[voice] count_gardios January 16 2011, 16:51:53 UTC

Wait, I don't understand; what's the point of having an emperor if the matters of the people are decided by democracy?

[voice] godbent January 16 2011, 17:01:02 UTC

It's symbolic, symbolic. An emperor is a symbol of national pride!

[voice] count_gardios January 16 2011, 17:05:59 UTC

So he's just a figurehead?

[voice] godbent January 16 2011, 17:06:41 UTC

Well if you want to put it like that, pretty much, yeah.

[voice] count_gardios January 16 2011, 17:23:10 UTC

That's kind of sad. He's okay with this?

[voice] godbent January 16 2011, 17:30:51 UTC

It's not like he's unimportant or uncared for you know! Him and his family get an estate and everything!

[voice] count_gardios January 16 2011, 20:30:46 UTC

Well yeah, I didn't think you'd just keep him in a pen and throw him some feed every so often. I just think it's sad that he has an empty title.

[voice] godbent January 17 2011, 04:47:11 UTC

They guy gets inborn prestige and land, it's not like he needs power on top of it.

[voice] count_gardios January 17 2011, 04:58:12 UTC

No, I guess just being a symbol of a noble bloodline serves its own purpose.

[voice] godbent January 17 2011, 05:04:29 UTC

Of course it does! Putting actual power in the hands of kings or queens or emperors or whatever is outdated and dumb, but that doesn't mean they should just stop existing, right? A royal bloodline's a strong symbol of pride for a nation, so there's no harm in keeping up their existence- in fact, it's arguable beneficial!

[voice] count_gardios January 19 2011, 07:58:50 UTC

["Outdated and dumb."

This chick really reminds him of someone he knows he's met, but still.]

For public morale, huh? Well, whatever works for you.

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