Or, all you whining motherfuckers, Left and Right, better look out
Let's imagine that a World Revolution has taken place (unlikely I know). And let's further imagine that, as a consequence, I have been made Universal Dictator and Lord Paramount of All Creation (even more unlikely, but still, let's imagine...).
Here I am, on the first day of the New Era, snug as a bug in a rug on my Throne of Perpetual Rule contemplating what to do next. The first thing I'd do is annihilate, dissolve, and forever do away with any ordinance whether local, national, or international, the origin of which could in any way be traced back to a moral injunction. There is no place for morality in law. 'Murder', for example, would cease to be a category of of criminality, to be replaced by the crime of 'unlawful killing'. A killing would be unlawful if it could be shown to be against the interest of the State. Since the State has an interest in maintaining public order, and since it possess a monopoly upon the lawful use of violence, all killings not directly licensed by the State would be unlawful and subject to its sanction. That sanction would be execution.
Perhaps some of you could explain to me how it serves the interest of the State to warehouse huge numbers of violent criminals for years at a time, to be fed and housed at the expense of those not convicted of some crime? Explain to me how it serves the interest of the State to be responsible for the welfare and maintenance of these malcontented parasites for decades on end? I see no justification for such a gross waste of resources other than that of 'morality'. But the State, being (as Hobbes wrote) a 'Mortal God' is the sole and only possible source of all political morality. And since the State has a natural duty to properly husband all resources devoted to it by its citizenry the only proper recourse on such grounds is to expeditiously remove all unnecessary and wasteful expense of those resources. The solution to overcrowding and waste in the penal system is obvious and straightforward: kill those held by that system out of hand, when properly and rightfully convicted.
As an aside, let me say that I have no problem with the death penalty even in the real (as opposed to this imaginary) world. If a person is convicted of a crime, and at the end of a decades long appeal process can produce to no evidence to substantiate his claim to innocence, then no matter the degree to which he has repented of his crime, no matter the degree to which he has reformed his life, he should be executed - because the original criminal act, which requires sanction, remains outstanding. The State, possessing a monopoly upon violence within society, and being the sole body capable of judgement uninfluenced by prejudice and emotion, is also the sole agency within the body politic that has an obligation to exact from an individual reparation commensurate with the crime for which he was sentenced. If you kill without the license of the State you ought to die according to the license of the State, because the State alone is able to determine the worth of each life that serves it.
Since we deny the validity of any crime the criminality of which derives from morality, all sexual expression now deemed criminal ceases to be so. If you want to marry your dog, feel free. If you want to marry your daughter (or your son) feel free. If you want to cohabit with multiples of either sex or both, feel free. However, if there is issue from such unions then you, as the father of that issue, face an absolute obligation to support that issue or face the sanction of the State - which is, once more, execution. If you, as the mother of such issue, are proven incapable of maintaining your children don't expect to be supported from the public purse. You as an adult human being, faced with the natural obligation to care for your child, ought to be both able and willing to care for that child. If you cannot the child ought to be taken from you and be raised by those competent to do so - either by the State directly, in the form of State Homes for Children, or through State licensed and monitored foster-parents (who would not be paid by the State for doing so but would raise the child on the basis of their own resources).
On the one hand the death penalty for defaulting fathers adequately controls the natural inclination of the male to spread his genetic endowment as widely as possible. On the other, the removal of the child from incompetent mothers adequately deals with the problem of females who breed for the sole purpose of gaining State benefits, as well as addressing the necessity for secure environments in which children can be brought up according to prevailing mores and codes of conduct. Since foster-parents receive no financial reward for fostering, the temptation to do so for gain (rather than interest in the development of the child) is removed while ensuring that only those who are socially successful and public-spirited enough to make such a sacrifice are allowed to engage in the practice.
Since, in our New World Order, Capitalism is taken to be the founding principle of economic life, all restrictions on trade of all kinds are immediately done away with. You want to sell crack or weed? Get a state license and pay the tax on the proceeds of your sales. You want to sell heroin? Do the same. You want to engage in prostitution? Apply to your local brothel for a position, be examined for communicable diseases, get a license, and pay your taxes.
All trade in everything which may properly be defined as a commodity is now legal, subject to the regulation of the State, and to its taxation. Certain things may not be trafficed however. Since everyone is now a citizen of the world-state any trafficing in human beings is by necessity illegal. The citizen exists for the State and serves its needs in all aspects of his life, but cannot effectively do so (using the full range of his natural endowments) if the citizen himself is regarded in some sense as a chattel, a commodity. Things cannot think independently. Things are not capable of original, creative thought, nor are they capable of visualising the greater good of the State as a whole and sacrificing themselves to it. In such a State, slavery is both a legal and philosophical impossibility - where slavery is defined as one citizen owning another as if the latter where simply an object of use.
And before any of you protest that this is a 'moral' objection based on the inviolable worth of the human being let me tell you it is no such thing. Should the State declare that a certain category of humanity were in some way unfit to be citizens then those so declared to be unfit would immediately become available as a category of commodity and therefore be available for trafficing in just the same way as any other commodity. In this world, the defining category is not 'human' but 'citizen'. There is no such thing as 'human' rights - there are only the rights accorded to citizens by the State in virtue of their citizenship.
And even these are conditional and not absolute rights. Contrary to the situation in America today, where a founding document decrees that certain rights are inalienable on the basis of a common humanity which gave birth to an Idea, embodied in that document, in this imaginary world all rights exist solely on the basis of a contract between citizen and State which passes to the State a final and binding Power of Arbitration between the purposes of the State and the purposes of the individual. In other words, the primacy of the State over the individual is paramount.
I can hear you whining motherfuckers of the Left and the Right screaming in outrage even as I write the words. Why is this a good thing? Because it cuts off at the root that temptation to emend, adapt, distort and corrupt the original principles embodied in a founding document such as the Constitution of the United States of America. No set of principles is impervious to changing conceptions of 'morality' and 'value'. No foundational document is immune to the process of time as it changes human consciousness. By making the State, that Mortal God, that embodiment of the rationality of the whole of the people (rather than the embodiment of the pernicious desires of some sectarian fragment of the people), that expression of the Divine (as Hegel had it; divine because divorced from passion, prejudice, wilfull malice and reckless self-seeking stupidity) immune to and apart from the various projects, plans, 'good ideas', and 'good intentions' of those it both rules and serves, we enable it to learn from its own experience, as opposed to the experience of those who merely compose the body of its servitors and agents.
And since the State endures, where those servitors and agents die, that accumulated and comprehensive wisdom must, of necessity, be of a higher order, and more serviceable to the well-being of humanity generally, than the fleeting and particular prejudices of those who at any given time carry out the Will of the State.
If the world were made over in my image all of you, all you whining, moralising, self-centred, self-serving, prejudiced, bigoted motherfuckers would have something to hate. Which is why you would be happy to be ruled by me. I wouldn't curtail your right to free-speech. I wouldn't prevent from from demonstrating in the streets (so long as you didn't disturb the public peace - if you did I'd kill your ass, and the asses of your entire families along with you). You could write to the editors of your local rags and bitch all you wanted.
And I'd be sure to see to it that the Secret Police took careful note of your names, your opinions, and how those opinions were received. Free speech is no bad thing - it serves as a useful barometer of popular opinion. And I'd be sure to see to it that each of you profited and succeeded in life in accordance with your talents and abilities, while each of you were busy fucking who you wanted, trading what you wanted, smoking, injecting and generally ingesting what you wanted, all while making as much money as you possibly could.
Because that's what it would take to keep creatures as soulless, as spineless, as devoid of moral content, as incapable of appreciating what freedom is, as addicted to gossip, sensation and meaningless trivia as you are, happy. If you have something to hate and something to lust after you are content. And any dictator who can be certain that his people is content is assured of absolute and uncontested rule.
Be glad that this is a work of political imagination and is therefore impossible of realisation.
Because if it weren't I'd make you all weep blood.
Merry Christmas, you degenerate children of noble fathers. May each of you have the Christmas you deserve.