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Democracy is about how to make decisions on future legislation: there is no "correct answer" that can be known, any more than there is a correct answer to "tea or coffee?"
No. It questions the assumption made in setting up democratic systems.
If people regret what they voted for, they have realized that they had made incorrect decisions.
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 10/02/2024 14:26:17No. It questions the assumption made in setting up democratic systems.Your explicit assumption is the "wisdom of crowds". A politician's implicit assumption is "the short term self-interest and gullibility of the electorate". The voting process is irrelevant.
The problem with democracy is that it takes too long to respond to any challenge. If the EU had been a dictatorship, would Putin's criminals still be destroying Ukraine?
The goal of many democracies has unfortunately become preservation of the elected representatives and the system that elected them, regardless of the consequences.
In those cases, they're chasing short term goals while ignoring the longer term goals.
Problem is that when politicians pursue longterm goals, either lots of people die (American Civil War, Napoleon's march on Moscow.....) or the taxpayer ends up supporting an unlimited vanity project like HS2 or fusion power.
Funny how nobody calls the destruction of Hamburg, Cologne, Dresden, Stuttgart, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, London, Coventry, Guernica, Almeria, Glasgow, Hanoi, Mariupol....."genocide".
The stated objective of Hamas is genocide. The stated objective of the IDF is to rid the world of Hamas.
Israeli government officials have expressed their genocidal intention as well.
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 20/02/2024 04:11:05Israeli government officials have expressed their genocidal intention as well.Citation needed. And please distinguish between agreed government policy and a translator's interpretation of an individual's off-the-record comment. Is Putin directly involved in Gaza? I thought he was more interested in owning the US president and attacking the Jew-run state of Ukraine.
And there is no evidence that the IDF is killing people because of what they are. Nor have you provided any evidence of genocidal intention.
South Africa has provided an accusation, not evidence.
Death from friendly fire is nothing new