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The argument that somebody else has better integrity and sense of duty representing my needs or wants is dead on arrival. Direct democracy is a representative d
by _Algernon_ 1y ago
The argument that somebody else has better integrity and sense of duty representing my needs or wants is dead on arrival. Direct democracy is a representative democracy where each person has a representative.
- bpt3 1y agoThe founding fathers and many others would disagree. Based on human history, your assessment of the average human's level of integrity and reasoning is irrationally optimistic. Also, I assume you meant to say "Direct democracy is a representative democracy where each person *is* a representative."
- _Algernon_ 1y agoIt doesn't matter because everyone only has to represent themselves so they don't really need to have integrity or ability to reason in some larger sense, they just have to be selfish — which is a lot easier than reasoning your way to what maximizes societal good, or some average of the opinions of the 100'000+ people you are supposedly representing. And the amount of power an individual has is negligible so a bad vote is diluted much more than it is in a representative democracy.
- bpt3 1y agoYou realize that a certain "institution" would have died out much slower (if at all) in the US if what you said was accurate? I think that's the only example needed to prove that direct democracy is not a desirable form of government, let alone the ideal.