On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 1:37 AM, Jonathan Frederickson silverskullpsu@gmail.com wrote:
How can any decision-making process meet this requirement?
a 20 year study involving hundreds of people was the subject of this very question.
There are often conflicting desires between different members of a community. In such a case, making *any* decision will have overruled the wishes of at least one community member. Democracy at least lets everyone express their wishes,
does that then empower them to have their wishes *met*? do you feel that it's good for people to be able to *express* their wishes if they know that they're not going to be heard?
rather than having e.g. a dictator that makes decisions regardless of the wishes of the people under their jurisdiction.
do you believe that all dictatorships are inherently bad for the people under their jurisdiction? are you familiar with paddy ashdown's instatement as (effective) dictator of one of the (unstable) eastern eurpoean block countries, about ten years ago? he said it was scary as hell, having that much power. the sheer overwhelming responsibility kept him from abusing the power of being head of state, head of the armed forces, judge, jury and executioner, head of the central bank and everything else.
l.