EvanTh
22d ago
it would imply that trauma is something very different than people generally think.
Yes, absolutely.
How your mind reacts to things is generally up to your evolutionary optimiser with no real constraint besides complexity
It's also up a lot of other things! Like your attitude, like the sort of things you do after the things, and so many other things. Historians have speculated that maybe the reason WWII caused less PTSD in US soldiers than Vietnam was that there was a longer time returning home on ships to process things together and get mental distance from it. I think our postmodern society has lost a lot of helpful rituals like that.
EvanTh
23d ago
Nothing about what happens if the electors choose an ineligible candidate.
Answered much later by the 20th Amendment: "If the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified."
EvanTh
23d ago
This seems to imply large fractions of human history where everyone was psychiatrically disabled.
I would not be surprised if that's true by modern standards.
I would also not be surprised if that wasn't the case because historical societies had rituals and other customs for dealing with stresses like this which we've forgotten.
EvanTh
23d ago
Also, statistically, a bad thing for everyone else because it promotes antibiotic resistance.
EvanTh
23d ago
The Commonwealth doesn't get legal say, but the Commonwealth realms absolutely do.
Currently, Charles is King of the United Kingdom, King of Canada, King of Australia, King of Barbados, et cetera. Each of those offices is legally a separate office, governed by law in each of those separate countries, so any abdication would require a statute law passed in each of those countries. (There're several like Papua New Guinea where it wouldn't, but several more where it would.) Similarly, any change to the royal succession would require a law in each of those countries.
That's rather difficult, so I don't expect it'll happen unless it's very much needed.
In terms of "it won't actually happen", or "it won't be good if it does happen"?
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