Moral dilemma - dictator of a small country

Reverend Conehead

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You're the President of a small country of about 100 million people. The government is dirt simple. There's no sharing of powers, no Congress, no parliament, no Supreme Court. There's just the President and an election for that office every 10 years, no term limits. You can pass pretty much any law you want to. If you wanted to require that everyone show up to work on Friday wearing a lime green suit and an orange top hat, all you would have to do is type up the law and then have a signing ceremony where you emboss the law and sign it. The only way you could get thrown out of office would be via a military coup, but you and the main General are tight, as he's bopping your hot 18-year-old daughter. Your country's flag is all green with the picture of a banana on it and the word “Republic” underneath it. The state animal is a chimpanzee, and the state bird is … you don't have one anymore. They ate it.

The election is coming up. You're opponent is a real jerk. He deepfaked a porn vid of your wife going at it with several drunken pygmies. The whole country thinks the video is real, and has totally been laughing at you, and the scandal has your opponent rising in the polls. The state religion is Voodoo. You got wind that your opponent is planning to manufacture a bunch of Voodoo dolls of you. Most people believe if enough people stab a needle into a doll of you it will cause you to lose the election.

However, unknown to your opponent, you're good friends with the owner of the factory that will make these Voodoo dolls. He says, for a small fee of 100 million bucks, he'll manufacture them all with a toxic chemical that will make most anyone who touches one keel over and die. If you take him up on his offer, almost everyone planning to vote against you will up and croak. You'll easily win re-election. If you don't do it, you'll probably lose, and the changing of power ceremony will involve your opponent putting you in stocks and throwing a pie in your face, and then everyone will throw rotten fruit at you, mock you, laugh at you, and pee all over your face. You'll then be exiled to a deserted island where you'll have to survive by eating nothing but cockroaches and coconuts.

You believe your opponent is a major goon who will wreck the country. Plus, you just can't stand him, especially after the way he treated your wife. Do you take up your friend's offer to kill all his voters with poisoned Voodoo dolls so that you're elected to another 10-year term? Why or why not?
 

HungryLion

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I wouldn’t say 100 million people is a small country.

that would make your country in the top 15 of population around the world.

larger than the UK, Spain, France, Germany, canada, Etc etc etc.
 

HungryLion

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If I’m as powerful as your first paragraph makes me out to be.

I wouldn’t kill all those voters. I would just make my opponent disappear via black bag.

One day, nobody would ever see or hear from him again. Simple.


That’s how guys like Putin do it and it seems to work. So why not.
 

Oz-of-Cowboy-Country

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I'd just get rid of the election process and maintain power for ever. No election, no change in power. No reason to kill someone. The pen is mightier than the sword.
 

Roadtrip635

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I'd just get rid of the election process and maintain power for ever. No election, no change in power. No reason to kill someone. The pen is mightier than the sword.
Yep this is the answer right here. My first declarations when assuming President would have been No elections, making Bacon the National Food and making "In A Gadda Da Vida" the National Anthem (just so when we win an Olympic Gold Medal they would have to play the full 17 minutes of the song :yourock:).

 

The Fonz

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I am always in favor of a benevolent dictator to get things done
 
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