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Perhaps they ought to set up their constitution to have a military pledged to the maintenance of a purely secular state that will overthrow any overtly religiou
by BeFlatXIII 5y ago
Perhaps they ought to set up their constitution to have a military pledged to the maintenance of a purely secular state that will overthrow any overtly religious government, no matter the electoral margins they earned when getting installed.
- let_me_ask_this 5y agoOr they could do what Lebanon does and have some mandatory representation from all ethnic groups in all important public institutions. There are definitely ways to make this work, if there is a true willingness to live in peace.
- wolverine876 5y agoLebanon doesn't seem like such an appealing model ...
- jdjdbxbfn 5y agoWhat are you talking about? Arabs ARE represented in the Knesset.
- wolverine876 5y ago> a military pledged to the maintenance of a purely secular state that will overthrow any overtly religious government That's an idea with a very bad history and no political legitimacy: What grounds does a general have to tell their neighbors what to do? Nobody voted for them. What stops the general from arbitrarily wielding that power? Why vest that power in the military? A civilian institution could make the decision, such as a court interpreting a constitution.
- guerrilla 5y agoI think you're being naive because the military always has that power, regardless of what people want to pretend. What would make it legitmate is that the people agreed to it ahead of time.
- wolverine876 5y ago> the military always has that power, regardless of what people want to pretend Maybe in your fantasies, but not in advanced democracies. Nobody would follow those orders; there's no evidence of it ever happening, in centuries. Technically, the people of Washington DC have the power to overthrow the government if they all rush the seats of power at the same time, but really they don't.
- guerrilla 5y agoThere have been hundreds of coup d'etat and attempts at such in "advanced democracies." And if you're trying to claim they aren't advanced if they haven't had a coup d'etat then there's just no true Scotsman, is there?
- wolverine876 5y agoWhen? Where? I suppose it could depend on definitions of 'advanced' democracies, but it ain't happening in the modern US, UK, Germany, France, Japan, S. Korea, Canada, Australia, etc. etc.