On 27-Jun-06, at 7:21 AM, Biju Chacko wrote:
On 27/06/06, Ashish Gulhati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Democracy is
simply a
disguised and especially dangerous form of tyranny.
/me sniggers nastily and heroically resists the tempation to feed
the troll.
[From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll]
Often, a person will post a sincere message about which he is
emotionally sensitive.
Skillful trolls know that an easy way to upset him is to falsely
claim that he is a "troll."
Also:
The term is often used to discredit an opposing position, or its
proponent, by argument
ad hominem.
I'm quite used to this, though. Most people are well and truly
brainwashed into
thinking that democracy is somehow nobler than open dictatorship,
because
they have never learned to think in terms of fundamentals.
So I will pose the fundamental question again: Why is it murder or
theft when one
man kills another, or appropriates another's property, but somehow
all noble when
a group of men vote democratically to kill or rob an individual?
I'd really love to hear an answer to this from a supporter of
democracy. I've posed this
question before on silk, but have never seen any answer posted, only
the regular
ad hominem crap, which gets old fast.
#!
