On 27 Dec 2014, at 22:44, meekerdb wrote:
On 12/27/2014 5:27 AM, LizR wrote:
On 27 December 2014 at 23:59, Alberto G. Corona
<[email protected]> wrote:
But that is not democracy. That is freedom. Freedom has existed
without democracy since the beginning. Unless we enter in a crazy
contemporary chauvinism that redefines freedom as existence of the
majority rule. Although many people is so crazy and low educated
and self centered as to accept this kind of nonsense.
As well as there have been an there is a lack of freedom under the
majority rule. Whenever the majority legislate against the
anthropological, economical or physical reality. (There have been
democratic decrees to render flu illegal)
And make pi equal to 3, I think?
And under theocracy you could be burned at the stake for having the
right opinion about astronomy.
Like in an atheocracy you can be send to a goulag because you have the
right opinion about genetics (cf Lyssenko affair).
It is pretty the case of all *-cracy, except in an (enough sane)
democracy where opposition is in principle allowed.
As long as theology does not come back to the academies, we will have
argument-per-authority in the religious, and academies will continue
to take for granted the theology of Aristotle (be it in its christian
or atheist forms).
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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