Editing Vulcan (section)

==Society==
Vulcans generally abhor violence, but logic dictates that defense of Vulcan and the Federation is necessary.  The government on Vulcan is a representative democracy, which tends towards ''laissez faire'', and the law system is designed to make laws easier to rescind than implement.  Individual political advancement is based on meritocratic principles. For an intensely logical race, the Vulcans do have a very firm spiritual belief.  Though they do not seem to have a unifying [[religion]], they believe in the ''[[katra]]'', the soul and consciousness of a person, which can be transferred psionically prior to death.

Development of a Vulcan's life of logic begins at a young age. Vulcan parents will utilize learning tools, such as ''[[pleenok]]s'', to train their infants in primary logic.  Vulcan children will then learn to detach themselves from their emotions at an early age. As parents, Vulcans never shield their children from the truth. Doing so would only hinder their ability to cope with inevitable difficulties. A Vulcan parent's attachment to their children cannot be described as an emotion. They are part of the parent's identity and the parent is incomplete without them.

Despite this early training in logic, Vulcan children in nursery school are allowed to dance. These dances are reminiscent of the dances of the Orion slave girl, just not as well coordinated.

Vulcans have chosen mates by the age of seven, selected by their parents. The mates are joined in a ceremony that links them telepathically. When the two come of age, the link compels them to follow through with full marital rituals, which cement their relationship. 

The essence of their logical society is in arriving at the truth through logical process. Emotion is illogical, thus making them impure, and deterrent to truth. However, Vulcans are born with the same emotions that afflicted their violent ancestors, but the continual mind conditioning gives them the impassivity sought after by all Vulcans. Though not all can arrive at the ultimate pure logical state, the exacting process of mental control gives Vulcans enough to conform to the ideals of Vulcan society. The ultimate level of logical thought is achieved through the attainment of ''[[kolinahr]]''.

Vulcans believe knowledge to be the only defense against unknown dangers, and pursue them with the intellect and logic that makes them some of the finest scholars in the Federation. Their pursuit of knowledge and impassivity of emotion are the driving forces in a Vulcan's life. Vulcans consider death to be the completion of a journey. Therefore, they do not fear it happening, however the loss of one's Katra is to be avoided if possible, since the Katra lives on beyonf the physical death.