Have you not read David Deutsch?
A recent realization: Freedom is a more refined political good than democracy. Don’t get me wrong, democracy is great. But any mob can make a habit of polling itself for consensus. Freedom is the more precious and fragile achievement.
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I have. Does he talk about this? My realizations tend to and go in waves :P
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Democracy being the least bad form of government doesn't make it good.
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You want both. Their strengths and weaknesses overlap, so they balance each other very well.
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democracy isn't an ends, it's a means
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Hear that, Switzerland?
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Freedom is about individual, democracy is about group.
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