Welcome to the 21st Century: How to Plan for the Post-Covid Future

Re:Welcome to the 21st Century: How to Plan for the Post-Cov... by TheAdamAndChe on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @09:31AM (#23476797)

That's the point. Otherwise highly populous states would steamroll smaller states, causing tremendous political tension and long-term could trigger a war.

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Re:Welcome to the 21st Century: How to Plan for the Post-Cov... by dundarious on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @10:00AM (#23477068)

The President can do far more than veto Goliath from steamrolling David. Flipping an unfair power balance, is still an unfair power balance.

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Re:Welcome to the 21st Century: How to Plan for the Post-Cov... by TheAdamAndChe on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @10:26AM (#23477336)

When considering political systems, fairness doesn't matter if it causes an unstable system.

Think of it kind of like an organism. Only those that can survive can evolve and pass on their genes.

That isn't to say that fairness is a bad goal, because it's a good goal. But the system needs to remain stable.

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Re:Welcome to the 21st Century: How to Plan for the Post-Cov... by dundarious on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @06:18PM (#23482852)

Replace “fair” with whatever word you would use to describe your steamrolling example, then.

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