Not exactly the point, but if it actually converted you, that'd work.
Did I miss something, or is that just a petty insult at my intelligence? I expected better.
I know he was smarter than me. I was being sarcastic. See, I also indiscreetly referred to the Soviets as the greater race. However, he wasn't dictator of the world, and in this thread, I am.

Invest in Green technologies, Allow Gay Marriage, Ban all religions with supernatural beings,Wipe out the existance of DotA, Walmart, the use of dial up, and celebrity gossip news crap.

Killing DoTA? That's almost as cruel as Centreri killing off the bottom 2% of the population!

I would stop wars, kill racists, stop the pollution & care about the political problems (of course...).

What next, are you going to make people wear the 666 (or 616 or whatever number it really is, some texts vary) mark and tell them to worship a statue? I'd revolt against this dictatorship before it started .

EDIT: Well actually I'd like just about all of that except the banning religions part... (yes, including the gay marriage, if we allow gay people to be gay, the gay gene will eventually die out as it cannot reproduce unless it's supressed)

No?

My dictatorship will be designed to increase intelligence. Superstitions like that only weaken my world. Religions with supernatural being(s) are likely to hinder intelligence so they are banned.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religiosity_and_intelligence

and DotA killed the map maker's innovation for warcraft3 as there are few good maps.

(there is no such thing as the gay gene)

In the process of increasing "intelligence," you'll also wipe out everything that most people have to live for, you'll decrease the social interaction of your subjects (your source also equates higher Emotional Intelligence with higher religiosity), and you'll close off a large portion of philosophy, conveying to your subjects that it is not ok to think about certain things (God), and that they are encouraged to think about other things (most likely material possessions and worship of the dictator). When you give your subjects the impression that they can only think about certain things, free thought it limited, and thoughts that do occur may be kept secret out of fear.
Also, according to your source, being religious does not make people dumber, it says that lower IQ people are more likely to be religious because religion gives concrete, definitive answers. Eliminating religion and those low IQ people will still be there, and they will be harder to pick out because they don't give themselves religious labels.

Yes, I agree with the DotA thing, from what I know, DotA sucks.

Also, yes, there has to be a gay gene. What else makes people gay? The gays themselves claim it is natural to be gay and that it is not outside influence or their upbringing that makes them gay. EVERYTHING is genetic. Heck, from what I've heard, the gay scientists have even isolated the "Christian gene" (I think that video might have been a joke actually, but I'm not sure...).

EDIT: Hmm, if intelligence is inversely linked to religiosity as you say... maybe that's why I've always struggled in my spiritual life .

You guys just say that because you've never play DoTA. It's like the most fun game on Warcraft III, everyone is lazy because they're naturally lazy, not because DoTA forces them to be lazy. It's not like IceFrog (creator of DoTA) is holding a gun to everyone's head telling them if they try to make any other map he'll kill them. People choose to be lazy.

What. You can't be serious good sir?

Global genocide on every human, letting the Earth naturally reach equilibrium.

EDIT: Every = EVERY one. Including me, my family, and my friends. A sacrafice we must take to preserve life. ;o

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Teehee. Oh my. This is among the more amusing things I've read all day. (... it's 11:00 right now, so that probably isn't saying much...)
If I'd not already seen Falkoner on the subject of homosexuality, I'd swear this a joke.
Which ones do?
I think you'll find very few people to disagree with that there are a large number of factors in one's sexuality.
I honestly have no idea why, entirely, the following economic models popped into my head, and I've similarly little idea how much sense they make or how effective they'd be, but if I'm to give something...
Hm. I imagine... countries (boundaries redrawn to account for natural resources, current current economic/technological strength, and population densities/characteristics), each with productivity quotas, funding a large, centralized, overseer government, but which are otherwise allowed a degree of internal free-market (possibly capitalized luxury/recreational markets with socialized "essential"s? Hard to define what goes where, though, I understand...).

Most nuclear arms would, of course, be disassembled (from what I read, the uranium from nuclear stashes has provided a large portion of the material for nuclear power generators). I leave open the possibility that someone would give me a good reason for keeping a few around.
Personal incomes would essentially be limited to a cap, based on general regional prosperity of the individual, increasable through general "charitable and altruistic efforts".
Of course, "green energy solutions" would receive major funding, although a general reduction of resource waste in general would also be highly emphasized (though I'm failing to imagine any methods towards that at the moment).
Education receives rehauling, with greater benefits to teachers and general decision-making school staff to hopefully encourage some degree of competency among them (a good enough teacher can work in a crappy educational system, but you need a mind-bogglingly amazing system to make-up for crappy teachers). Also, high schools would have a generally higher emphasis on 'thinking' subjects - critical/statistical analysis, scientific method, practical human psychology, philosophy(aha, people other than nerds and the well-educated would know what "hedonism" and "utilitarianism" are!), game theory come to mind.
Implementation of loose child-count laws, possibly involving intelligence brackets similar to Centreri's concept (intelligence testing may not be perfect, but we certainly could improve a craplot from where we are now), though also against genetic defects (personally, given my family history of shitty joints and the fact that I'm now essentially the most frail person I know, as despite my 115-pound body pushups place a ever-more-quickly painful degree of strain on my elbows and wrists and hands, I think that things would be rather unfair for any children I could potentially have, unless some nice progress in the particular field of medicine is made...).

And that's all that comes to mind which is atleast coherent(let alone good). Lots more I can think of, but I'm too lazy to work them out into anything sayable, and most of these are just random ideas that have popped into my head anyways.

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I vote for Cent. Only because I'm (and likely most people on SEN (that I like, that is)) are in the top two percentile.

And world peace!!!


Jesus, half of you guys sound like if you were giving a miss universe speech.
As for killing people, you don't have to go that far. In El Salvador back when we were a military dictatorship led country General Martinez used to cut hands from those who dared to steal from others. Sure lowered the theft ratio

Dear god you people are arrogant.

On topic;
I'm gathering all the really hot chicks and storing them in my personal chambers, then spending the rest of my life there. People outside can govern however they want.

This is what I'm doing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demarchy
(With the lottocracy note, to be more specific.)

I also disagree with the intelligence quota as well, as it wouldn't directly relate to anything beneficial. Having a bunch of intelligent trash men, if they would even want that job, wouldn't make for a better world. Instead, I would kill the leeches on the community, welfare moms with 8 kids for example. Theft, murder, rape would also be highly punishable, I'd go with what someone else said, cutting off their hands for theft. Babylonian law works pretty well.
Universal language definitely sounds good, probably English though.
As far as equalizing standards... my plan for Africa does that.

That comes without saying. Trying to beat ancient kings with over 1000 babies sounds like a goal to have.

Or try beating aids

I previously mentioned rounding up all aids / incurable (infectious) diseases and sticking them on an island.
Death with body being cremated works too. I was trying to be a little humane.

I did not say anything about philosophy. Religion has no and is not Philosophy. Religion is faith based while Philosophy requires rational proof and Science requires empirical proof. My source HYPOTHESIZES that religion does not make people less intelligent. However I argue that Religion with supernatural beings does make people less intelligent which you can see from the nice statistical information (science). The Philosophical "god" is different from the religious god. In my dictatorship i am not denying the philosophical ones (The philosopher Hume has a sorta nice proof of many gods) just the religious faith based ones. Many people do not live for religion. What does Emotional Intelligence have to do with social interaction?

Why are people questioning my dictatorship ?

Ooooh! That would be awesome, and to gather them you'd like

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