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You're making a fundamental mistake in conflating legality with democratic will.

• lz400 9y ago
  Surely part of the democracy is the rule of the law, isn't it? I'm sure you can point to laws in the past that made a farce of democracy, but most of them aren't in modern democracies. You can think this one is particular is anti-democratic but most countries actually have similar laws against unilateral secession of a single region.
  • ekimekim 9y ago
    > I'm sure you can point to laws in the past that made a farce of democracy, but most of them aren't in modern democracies. I can point to a HUGE number of laws that make a farce of the democratic process in almost any modern democracy. A short list that applies mostly to the USA but some to other countries also: * Gerrymandering (the act of designing districts along demographic lines to influence an election outcome) * First past the post voting (where voters can't vote for who they really want, they have to vote 'strategically' for the person they think will come first or second) * Voter ID laws that seek to disenfranchise certain demographics by requiring hard(or expensive)-to-acquire ID they are less likely to have
    • lz400 9y ago
      Sure but unless you are extremely radical, those are the exception not the rule. Most of the laws, that regulate murder, theft, libel, etc. are all right. At least I like to think that most first world countries are approximately democracies, otherwise what's the measure of democracy we can have? because as I said, no unilateral secession is a pretty universal coded law in the first world.