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>> Except part of the point of a democratic society is to leave the hard decisions of state to a small group of people who are ideally best equipped to handle i
by fandb 11y ago
>> Except part of the point of a democratic society is to leave the hard decisions of state to a small group of people who are ideally best equipped to handle it.
In a representative democracy like America yes, (a democratic republic actually) yet a pure democracy seeks majority compromise.
- rqebmm 11y agoTrue. I was using democratic as shorthand for democratic republic, but that does lose a bit of clarity.
- grandalf 11y agoRepresentative democracy is not worthwhile for its own sake, it is something that is earned. The basic idea of democracy has no room for an intermediate "council of elders".
- rqebmm 11y agoNothing is worthwhile for its own sake, but empirically speaking representative democratic societies have been the most successful in recent history, which makes it a reasonable default. What would you argue is better and more importantly, what evidence do you have that it would be more effective?