Are humans capable of handling democracy?

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Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat

The replacement of the Directoire by the Consulat. :sweatdrop:

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Trust a Frenchman. ~;p I'll concede that an an example, though I would argue that Bonaparte is most certainly the exception for the rule to hold. :bow:

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Originally Posted by HoreTore

Democracies has tortured, oppressed and generally been idiots. In a much smaller degree than dictators, but still way too many times to be considered "the perfect thing". And a lot of the cases are with full popular support too.

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I retire, speechless.

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Originally Posted by HoreTore

Democracies has tortured, oppressed and generally been idiots. In a much smaller degree than dictators, but still way too many times to be considered "the perfect thing". And a lot of the cases are with full popular support too.

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I'd argue that this reflects the flaw in humanity rather than the flaw in democracies, afterall, presuming a decent-working democracy the people get the rulers they choose, and that the fact that despite human nature to generally be a :daisy: towards his own.
That democracy seems to be far better at containing the damage than other systems is proof that democracy is a success whereas humans are rather the opposite :sweatdrop:

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Originally Posted by Snowhobbit

I'd argue that this reflects the flaw in humanity rather than the flaw in democracies, afterall, presuming a decent-working democracy the people get the rulers they choose, and that the fact that despite human nature to generally be a :daisy: towards his own.
That democracy seems to be far better at containing the damage than other systems is proof that democracy is a success whereas humans are rather the opposite :sweatdrop:

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It is indeed. In a dictatorship, the dictator has all the power, and there is noone to stop him. In a democracy, said dictator is stopped by the will of the people. However, there is no guard against the will of the majority of the people. If the majority wants thing x done in a certain way, it will be done. The minority however, has no power at all. Laws you say? Unfortunately, in our democracies, these can be changed by the majority(usually 2/3). One result of this was a campaign of forced sterilization of the sami people by the norwegian and swedish governments during the 50's. The majority didn't care about them, so democracy didn't protect them in any way. There are a lot of such examples, even in the last 50 years.