On Wednesday, January 31, 2018 at 1:10:13 AM UTC-6, Chris.B wrote:
On Tuesday, 30 January 2018 20:27:05 UTC+1, Chris L Peterson wrote:

I disagree, given that there is no "ideal society". The best human
society in terms of our success as a species may turn out to be a
single brilliant autocrat who simply kills every other person who
fails to fulfill his given role well enough.

Whoops! Doesn't this come down to ample reward for effort?
Slaves would argue strongly against your role fulfillment aspect.
The broken tail light, capital punishment syndrome is considered harsh.
Crooked oil princes imagine themselves too worthy to need any moral role.
That belief is constantly reinforced by the world's oil buying nations.

We have not yet descended to true comic book, black and white morality.
Yet our fiction is still fixated on appeals to imaginary gods and super-beings.
All in a desperate bid to provide the natural justice not available within any existing society.
The irony being that those who would guard our morals and roles are usually the absolute extremists of human corruption.

Meanwhile, Lord, please mark me down for double rations of Soylent, easy over, when you finally get to be in charge. ;-)

The term is "over easy".