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Re:Legalize It All by hutzlibu on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @09:16AM (#11336296)
Democracy fails when the demos fails. If you have a lot of stupid people, then you have a lot of stupid laws. So I don't see the problem with democracy, just with stupid people.
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Re:Legalize It All by zeemonkee3 on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @09:44AM (#11336480)
Intelligent, well-educated people are capable of appalling stupidity and herd-mentality. Or as Agent K said in Men in Black, "A person is smart. People are stupid."
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Re:Legalize It All by hutzlibu on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @06:12AM (#11343187)
And the very same person did this, to justify to lie to the whole humanity about the existence of aliens ... to keep them as stupid sheeps.

So I don't agree. It might be, that intelligent people give in to group pressure of a all in all much more stupid group. But even if you have too much stupid people, their collective intelligence still pays off.

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