he'll cure apathy about allowing people to vote
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re: both ways of interpreting that, too.
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democracy requires virtuous populace. change populace, restrict franchise, remove democracy all options
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Bullshit. Whole point is to assemble unreliable, nonvirtuous flawed people into virtuous systems
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how's that working out for the US lately
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extremely well as it happens. We're solving things by arguing and anxiety instead of blood.
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we run one of the most expansive and arguably most purposeless empires the world has ever seen, ...
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...bomb seven different countries for sport, our institutions are in decline or in freefall, ...
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also disagree with your characterization of state of affairs, but only point I'll contest...
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...is the idea that 'virtue' is necessary for people to have legitimate political agency
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we may be making different arguments, I'm not saying anything about legitimacy or whether people...
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..._ought_ by some higher ethical framework to be allowed formal participation in a democratic system
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that's where that line of argument inevitably leads though
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