Rule by Reason (A Rationalist Fantasy?)

[<] [>]  by Sue Bowers[+]

4 September 2012

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Drabble Challenge #97

Prompt: believe

"You'll need a lot of manpower to force their conformity, to silence the doubters. They'll have a million arguments, and questions..."

"That's not how the Council for Rational Inquiry and the Social Contract operates. We have a million answers. Let them ask! We welcome it. Nothing validates our position as effectively as good answers...and if something doesn't hold up to scrutiny, we'll change it. Above all else, we are amenable to reason.

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"I don't believe in that new policy! I demand that the laws of my grandfathers be applied to everyone."

"Nobody's asking you to believe. We have EVIDENCE."

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