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ScooterTrash -> RE: "Leaders" (8/2/2006 4:33:16 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Dtesmoac
It sounds like a wonderful idea when people agree with your opinions but just suppose it was applied globally and all people globally had the same say and it was applied to one of the issues of the moment like Iraq, Lebanon, Global Warming, Global Free Trade, Stoning Adulterors, Gay rights etc. Would you continue to support it if on each issue the uneducated, ignorant world masses out voted the educated, rich westerners. China and India alone could probably push through the "only bicycles to be used in America" bill.
Freedom, One Person One vote etc always seems to stop just at the edge of a persons back yard. It still suprises me how often I speak with people that have vehement views that I find almost impossible to imagine but which they consider totally reasonable.
Some examples that I can not understand but which others totally believe are - carrying a hand gun around, that sinners will go to hell, extereme animal rights, wanting to go out and shoot bambi for sport, watching baseball, etc....
As always perhaps I am being ridiculous and taking the examples to far but my point is that often the mob / masses etc are wrong and eventually they realise it, but if you allowed them to act on everything they may realise they were wrong, to late. Slavery was once considered to be completely acceptable but now is not......ok that was the wrong example for this web page but you know what I mean.
I understand what you are saying about how a "global" opinion might be an issue, but in our lifetime, chances of that happening are slim to none. On the other hand, on a smaller scale this is a practical thought. No, not having each and every person vote on each and every issue, but for the representative to get a feel for how the majority of the people in the area, district, city, county, whatever felt about important issues that would/could affect them, then voting accordingly. I see no threat of doing what the majority wants and certainly am more concerned about someone given the power to decide on crucial issues who doesn't know what the majority wants, or even if they do, not feel compelled to vote that direction. Now if you are in the minority when it comes to issues that concern most people, I can see why a system based on community preferences would be of concern, but the good thing is, not that many people would share that concern.
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