On 20.05.2012 23:54, StealthMonger wrote:
Speak for yourself. Others simply go their own way in peace, perhaps
occasionally temporarily detouring to cooperate with others in some
mutually beneficial endeavor.
Nothing I have read from anthropology nor psychology bears this out,
both portray us as a deeply social species and suggest that our primary
motivations are social ones, not individual utility maximization. We
don't temporary detour to co-operation, co-operation is our natural
state, and the reason for of our success as a species. It's quite the
opposite, those that "go there own way" are either on a temporary
detour, or simply outliers. There are 7 billion of us, and by large we
work together, share and compromise with each other, and our survival
depends on this.
If we can't collectively decide ... then we can have neither
democracy
nor freedom.
Freedom is the absence of political subjugation of dissidents.
Freedom is much more than that.
Democracy does not respect freedom (the secret ballot has no shame)
and
becomes tyranny of the majority -- the most robust kind of tyranny.
So how do you propose we make collective decisions? Might makes right?
--
Dmytri Kleiner
Venture Communist
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