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> Liberal democracies are build on the principle that no institution is beyond corruption. It's an ontological issue, if everyone is potentially compromised, h
by agumonkey 2y ago
> Liberal democracies are build on the principle that no institution is beyond corruption.
It's an ontological issue, if everyone is potentially compromised, how do you know anything ? It's also leveraged by biased medias to discredit old institutions and suddenly no more counter powers..
- lr1970 2y ago> It's an ontological issue, if everyone is potentially compromised, how do you know anything ? You just made a strong case for freedom of speech and free press.
- nabla9 2y agoIt's the core of liberal democracy. It's the pragmatic acknowledgment that human fallibility necessitated institutional safeguards against the concentration of power. Enlightenment thinkers like Montesquieu, came up with it.