Questions tagged [social-norms]
For questions asking about current or future normal behavior in a given society.
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Is it feasible that cars would be made with a central driving position?
On the world of Ruquelis, I'm contemplating having cars (currently at circa 1920s levels of development and styling) having a central driving position, not because of some recent design decision, but ...
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How believable is this disease model in my settings level of tech understanding?
Throughout history we humans have had multiple explanations for what causes different conditions or different infectious diseases. In the current era we understand infectious disease to be spread by ...
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A "GTA-style" society with freely accessible weapons [closed]
I know a typical "medieval world"/Europe with magic, actually won't be socially similar to the archetypal fantasy world found in average works, IRL
but in a modern (grand theft auto) or ...
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What can cause a 'triad' (grouping of three) to be considered 'normative' over a 'binary grouping'
We've all heard the story of the Theban Sacred Band, and the tenets of Christian marriage. These both revolve around the concept of two individuals tightly knit together (metaphorically not literally)...
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How does a unscrupulous infamous Raubritter get 'tolerated enough' to not get removed? [closed]
To put a long story short, we have a long man-made bridge between two minor political entities. Along this bridge, is a Zollburg. The individual in charge imposes far higher tolls than 'what is ...
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How to stop a genetically enhanced army from becoming a state within a state?
In a setting where a 'nation' was formed via warlord adventurism, and where genetic enhancements are hypercommon amongst the military (ie, improved immune systems, improved circulatory and respiratory ...
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How can magic which manifests equally in males and females favour a society which is matriarchal and polyandrous?
I want to create a fantasy world filled with magic and with cultures which are matriarchal (ruled by females) and polyandrous (permissive of women having multiple simultaneous husbands). Doing this ...
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How to sustain a monoracial society in a modern world? [closed]
I want to include a country with a uniform physical appearance (a narrow range of builds, hair, eye, skin colors - like how fantasy races used to be stereotyped) in my fictional world. The setting is ...
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How can a social norm that discussions about faith are an intimate topic survive the existence of proactive religions?
In this culture the question is about, the prevalent view is that discussing or visually displaying your faith is seen as uncomfortable behavior - roughly the same as just starting blabbering in ...
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Would killing 444 billion humans leave any physical impact on Earth that's measurable?
Setting is modern day Earth. North Korea has been secretly mentally corrupted and assimilated into the collective consciousness of the Chthonic Hivemind. Wishing to manifest itself into Earth for ...
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Society with random teleportation [closed]
In a parallel-universe jumping setting (akin to Rick and Morty or Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness) we enter a universe where people teleport to a nearby location at some reasonable rate (...
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A world where some currency loses value when handled would have a deflationary economy. What would the consequences to society be?
Imagine a world which looks roughly like what we might call the “standard D&D setting”; not quite medieval, not quite Renaissance, something like 17th century London, where a penny buys a day’s ...
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What are the parenting options available to species that reproduce by fragmentation?
How would a species that forms new life only when the parent fragments, do parenting?
Like sea stars and molds, my species forms a new child when the parent is broken. However, this is the only means ...
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Is it reasonable that magic would become a subject and magi would become students in military academies in a world with rediscovered magic?
Until twenty years before the time at which my story is set, the world was pretty much as our modern-age world is now. Magic was thought to be nothing more than myth and superstition. Alien worlds ...
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A country where citizens are supposed to have a name with three to ten parts [closed]
In my world that is set in a near future, there was an EXTREMELY big country fusion.
Since the country has more than 500 million inhabitants, people are required to have a name with at least three ...
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