What if Philosophy or Science was law?

[ChristineES]

What if a Philosophiocracy or Scientiacracy existed

Can you imagine the absurdity of it?
What if a society abode by philosophical position on matters. Make logical fallacies a crime against reason and sentenced people to "correctional facilities" where philosophical ethics and principles were enforced.

Can you imagine a society where improper reasoning is punishable. To be punished under the law of Kantian ethics.

Now imagine a scientific based society. Where disbelief in the Big Bang or Evolution is unacceptable. A society where the weaker of a species could face extermination or genetics defects warrant capital punishment.

For some reason this idea seems amusing. Can anybody imagine some actions that would be deemed criminal in such societies?

They'd do what people in dictatorships always do: Pay lip service to those things and believe something different in their hearts.

 

[psychoslice]

Then it would be like religion, religion has already done all that, you need a good imagination to see it on the other side, yes could happen, but I doubt it.