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Yes, that's the right spirit. You make a deal, then you don't keep up your part of the deal, and then if the other part reacts they are "childish". Democracy m
by danmaz74 13y ago
Yes, that's the right spirit. You make a deal, then you don't keep up your part of the deal, and then if the other part reacts they are "childish".
Democracy means that the Swiss are free to make their choices, and bear the consequences, like every other democracy.
- sentenza 13y agoWell, would you say that choice is more important than freedom of religion? The Swiss seem to think so. In reality, you always have to make compromises. Pure democracy, in which the vox populi is total imperative must lead to isolationism in todays multi-faceted, complicated world. The best IMO best way to deal with todays world is the parlamentary democracy, where the citizens decide on the big questions and choices of direction while the technocrats try to work things out as close as possible to the stated choice of the electorate. Picking out a tiny fragment of a big international treaty with many interested parties and rejecting that after the fact is childish.