I suppose the obvious question (genuinely curious here) is...
If you don't think that a representative democracy is a good way for a country to firstly organise/manage its operation/running and then secondly decide what laws its inhabitants should live by, which way do you think it should be done?
Or is your disagreement more fundamental? Do think disagree with the actual concept of society organising itself through governments and laws?
I've always been of the opinion that democracy works in a small scale but the larger it gets the less an individual's effect on the process counts. This is why you get disenchanted voters and ex voters.
I do like the idea of a social contract. I just wish there was some form of system in place to ensure that governments kept manifesto promises (or at least had a reasonable excuse why not instead of allowing them to bury the promise and pretend it never existed...).
If you don't think that a representative democracy is a good way for a country to firstly organise/manage its operation/running and then secondly decide what laws its inhabitants should live by, which way do you think it should be done?
Or is your disagreement more fundamental? Do think disagree with the actual concept of society organising itself through governments and laws?
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My disagreement is more fundamental though -- I would prefer mutual aid and contracts to governments and laws, in the long term.
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I do like the idea of a social contract. I just wish there was some form of system in place to ensure that governments kept manifesto promises (or at least had a reasonable excuse why not instead of allowing them to bury the promise and pretend it never existed...).
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