problems, then you should not be creating even more barriers for them to act. Imagine a dictatorship determined to replace its population with Somalis. Second, taking a negative view of human nature makes democracy more and no less attractive. Why would you trust so few humans
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with such power? Decentralization and distribution are the better way to prevent abuses. Third, people continue to say that in an undemocratic system, including one where government is passed as inheritance, elites have more incentive to do better. How? They have no competition.
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Fourth, assuming that there are no perfect moral preferences and that policies are about trade-offs, which are reasonable assumptions, the disfranchisement of some people just means that some people will have their interests and preferences ignored, and not that their optimal
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outcome will be chosen for them. Think of how all the successes of nationalists were only made possible by the working class vote, and if the upper classes had all the political power, no resistance against the disease of our age would have had the slightest hope of being formed.
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Fifth, you can not be confident that your elite will be sane, and while you also can not be confident that your population will be sane, at least in a democracy you get to make the case for sanity. Sixth, elites already possess disproportionate power in a democracy where there is
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plenty of room to shape public opinion. Much of the dissatisfaction with current democratic decisions are complaints against elites. Giving them more power does not seem prudent.
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I think most of the problems of democracy would go away if we limited voting in various ways eg IQ, but that appears to be unstable. As for unlimited democracy vs. other options, I'll just try to avoid picking anything as definitively better.
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I do not think it matters much anyway. What matters is having a good demography and an elite that is invested in the well-being of its people in the long-term. Think Israel and Japan.
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It would be important to have a humane and efficient eugenics program, but I do not think democracy is the impediment that people think it is. One could make a compelling case for the offering of sterilization to criminals in exchange for probation and for the offering of
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sterilization to welfare recipients in exchange for continued benefits. Of course the problem is the current climate where the idea that Swedes and Somalis are exactly the same, is considered sacred.
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Absolutely huge problem there
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