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Power Femme
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Cinnamon spiced, caramel colored, power-femme
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Married to a wonderful horse girl
Join Date: Oct 2009
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Originally Posted by MsDemeanor
Which planet gets the scientists who know how to create interplanetary weapons?
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The liberal one. Ultimately, science only really works in open societies and since the liberal society would allow scientific research to go apace without interference from the church and the other one would have the church looking over every research program for signs of doctrinal heresy, science would go further in the former. Science just doesn't do well in theocratic (or otherwise closed) societies -- look at what happened to Galileo and Copernicus or, more recently, look what happened to physics in Germany under the Nazi regime or biology under Stalinism.
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