Religion is bad, M'kay?

[PogueX]

the church isn't the only bad guys in FF14 though you have the Monetarist a faction in the Ul'Dah's syndicate that conspires to commit regicide

so you can look at that and think "oligarchy is bad m'kay" something that most would agree with

[IoannesBellator]

the church isn't the only bad guys in FF14 though you have the Monetarist a faction in the Ul'Dah's syndicate that conspires to commit regicide

so you can look at that and think "oligarchy is bad m'kay" something that most would agree with

Well, yeah... and no. Because I'd see government as being cyclical but still prone to becoming corrupted versions of themselves. Monarchies (Rule by one) can become unjust tyrannies; and they devolve to or evolve from aristocracies (Rule by few) which become oligarchies; and they devolve to or evolve from democracies (Rule by the citizens) which become mob rule. Regardless of the form of government, legitimacy is enforced by the strongest. People band together and decide what is right or wrong on consensus, whether it's rape, murder, or pillage, etc. That's how warlords rise up from mobs of people who fight each other- they band together, and how kings form from groups of warlords. In each forms, for a large part of human history, religion was used to legitimize their rule. Without religion, we can just pretend that we're good enough and smart enough, even though it's evident that we'll never be so.