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I'm going to repeat myself with my response. If people want to democratically remove democracy, then they can. If they want to make murder not a crime, they can
by hackerlight 3y ago
I'm going to repeat myself with my response. If people want to democratically remove democracy, then they can. If they want to make murder not a crime, they can. If they want to remove everyone's rights, they can. There are democratic mechanisms that can achieve all these idiotic things if the people really want to achieve them. Revoking these rights is made difficult on purpose because, over a period of 50+ years, the majority of people have decided that we shouldn't revoke said rights if only 50.001% of people wish to do so over a timeframe of 1 day. They built mechanisms to make very sure that it really was the will of the people if said rights were to be permanently revoked.
- ftxbro 3y ago> "If they want to make murder not a crime, they can." I feel like you can't compare murder to allowing someone to run for office.
- vkou 3y agoIndeed, the consequences of letting a an autocrat keep trying fraud/violence until it works are generally far worse than a single murder.
- ftxbro 3y agothe word autocrat has bad connotation what if they call your guys the autocrats and don't let them run for office
- vkou 3y agoSince you don't like that word, what should we call trying to use fraud or violence to steal an election? A traitor? A candidate for a firing squad? A guy trying his hand at a bit of high treason?