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Re: World and local Assembly's
Posted by: MiKolar (IP Logged)
Date: July 16, 2010 06:35AM

The people don't always choose what is right for himself in the field of health and in the field of justice.
If you believe in the above, if you need to have somebody above all the other people who will decide what is good for them, there is no point to fight for direct democracy. Such an office will always be abused.


Human rights are changing and developing with time. At any given moment of history they reflect what the consensus of the majority of the society. The most progressive people are usually ahead of the majority, but that should be their role to explain and persuade the rest to advance and improve the human rights.


Direct democracy is possible only in an educated society where everybody is willing to participate at least a little bit. Again, if you need somebody more wiser than the "mob" to override any decisions made by a direct democracy process, there is no chance for DD.


Anyway, the examples you gave of "mob" justice are not decisions made by majority in a DD process, but the acts of minorities (some of them criminal).


Mirek

mk, [democracy.mkolar.org]


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  World and local Assembly's 982 BrEggum 07/29/2009 03:05PM
  Re: World and local Assembly's 335 Gaius 07/15/2010 11:32PM
  Re: World and local Assembly's 446 MiKolar 03/26/2010 10:39PM
  Re: World and local Assembly's 419 BrEggum 03/26/2010 10:47PM
  Re: World and local Assembly's 341 MiKolar 07/16/2010 06:35AM
  Re: World and local Assembly's 338 Gaius 07/17/2010 05:30AM
  Re: World and local Assembly's 328 BrEggum 08/01/2010 09:32AM
  Re: World and local Assembly's 355 MiKolar 08/03/2010 03:43AM
  Re: World and local Assembly's 342 MiKolar 08/03/2010 12:18PM
  Re: World and local Assembly's 296 BrEggum 10/19/2010 07:09PM
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