Greybeard
Minstrel
When world building, do you give serious thought to taboos? Have you created any unusual ones?
Orions have a mess of taboos about eating in public... just like humans have taboos about having sex in public.
If anything, it is their utter lack of taboo that defines the culture.
So I could, say, eat cooked human baby (as long as it died of natural causes) while fornicating with an orangutan? In public or private? Hmm.…
Aside from the fact that neither humans nor orangutans exist, technically it would be allowed, yes.
I took this route because it shows a world where many things do work, some in ways far better than ours, but it also shows that no system can be taken to an extreme. The spread of freedom gave these people a near ideal government and economy - nobody is so poor that they cannot feed their family or get medicine when dying, and the government is all but powerless, they function more as lawyers than as rulers - but the lengths they went to to ensure 'ultimate freedom' caused what we would perceive as grand scale moral decay.
And now that I think about it, it would probably be taboo for them to cover their hands with gloves etc. since that would hide their profession class tattoo.
That's interesting. I assume this takes place in a culture where it doesn't get too cold during the winter? Otherwise everyone would get frostbite, and then they'd have no more hands at all.