Re:Why Do We Admire Mobsters?
by dragonwriter on Thursday September 17, 2015 @06:08PM
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> Except part of the point of a democratic society is to leave the hard decisions of state to a small group of people who are ideally best equipped to handle it.
No, that's the point of representative government (which can be part of democratic society -- hence, representative democracy -- but is not essential to it.)
The point of democratic society is that society -- and government in particular -- should be responsive to the will of the people. One of the things the people frequently want, however, is not to spend all of their time dealing with issues of governance, so they often choose representative democracy as a mechanism for achieving that goal.
No, that's the point of representative government (which can be part of democratic society -- hence, representative democracy -- but is not essential to it.)
The point of democratic society is that society -- and government in particular -- should be responsive to the will of the people. One of the things the people frequently want, however, is not to spend all of their time dealing with issues of governance, so they often choose representative democracy as a mechanism for achieving that goal.