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As I see it, democracy is both a means to the end of ensuring (relative, in fits and starts) liberty, and an end in itself. Nobody can rightfully claim to be e
by hugh3 16y ago
As I see it, democracy is both a means to the end of ensuring (relative, in fits and starts) liberty, and an end in itself.
Nobody can rightfully claim to be entitled to make and enforce laws for a group of people unless they were chosen by that group of people. Claiming otherwise is like claiming that person A is entitled to own person B as a slave just because person A is a relatively good slavemaster.
- kiba 16y agoAs I see it, democracy is both a means to the end of ensuring (relative, in fits and starts) liberty, and an end in itself. Nobody can rightfully claim to be entitled to make and enforce laws for a group of people unless they were chosen by that group of people. Claiming otherwise is like claiming that person A is entitled to own person B as a slave just because person A is a relatively good slavemaster. This is a fundamental disagreement in political philosophy and let we disagree on that. Mine is based on the concept of the sovereignty of the individual, not the group. To add a little bit information, I am an individualist anarchist. Thus, I place my hope in things like pananarchism(seasteading), or agorism, anything, other than trust people with political power. It might not work out, but I developed a deep distrust for democratic institutions.
- SoftwareMaven 16y agoI think a deep distrust of democratic institutions would be the best thing democracy proponents (and those living in democratic governments) could cultivate.
- Qz 16y agoLearn a little about 'democracy' and you'll see that in practice it doesn't really bring us any closer to true individual liberty than the old era of Kings and Queens.
- kiba 16y agoThis book is a great start. http://www.amazon.com/Myth-Rational-Voter-Democracies-Policies/dp/0691129428 http://www.amazon.com/Myth-Rational-Voter-Democracies-Polici... Other than that, I defer to the "Democracy is two wolves and one sheep deciding what to eat for dinner" quote.
- notahacker 16y agoThe same reasoning could be applied to argue that the US and US corporations should have no influence whatsoever over who governs the Chinese.