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> But what happens when democracy reaches a conclusion that seems obviously unjust? In that case, we imagine a better democracy. If someone feels empathy is wh
by patcon 7y ago
> But what happens when democracy reaches a conclusion that seems obviously unjust?
In that case, we imagine a better democracy. If someone feels empathy is what makes their local democracy work better, and the further-above larger spheres of democracy no longer embody that:
We should imagine a new democracy that optimizes for empathy, no?
- geofft 7y agoI'm not sure I follow concretely what is meant by "imagine a better democracy." Does it involve stopping the unjust outcomes (by persuasion, influence, or force) or just advocating a new constitutional convention at some point? And how do we make it better / "optimize for empathy" - do we change how votes are allocated and weighted? Do we enshrine empathy as a constitutional principle and ask judges to stop unempathetic laws? Are the protesters in Hong Kong imagining a new democracy that optimizes for empathy? Did the plaintiffs in Obergefell do so? What about the soldiers at Normandy? Is refusing to work for employers that sell to ICE part of imagining a better democracy?