I think it is also a symptom of at least serious subclinical depression. It takes a certain level of mental health to find democracy retreating, since most other systems offer a degree of mental health support in exchange for sacrificing agency.
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Humans are capable of being monsters. Democracy is how you secure your own existence without letting monstrousness in others unleash monstrousness in you. Because seeing others only as monsters, with no humanity, is the beginning of turning into one yourself.
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Don’t be a monster. Don’t let monsters get you. Beyond that... https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1073751685212692480?s=21 …https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1073751685212692480 …
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I personally extend my democratic disposition to all animals, so I’m vegetarian. But I do eat plants. So my generalized principle of democracy is that there are only 3 ways to relate to another living thing: eat it, accept the legitimacy of being eaten by it, or let it vote.
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While I’ll do my best to avoid being eaten by a shark, I accept the possibility as part of the natural order of things. I’m fair game for sharks, potatoes are fair game for me.
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Like the old story of the loaf cutter and the half-loaf chooser, always try to imagine yourself in both places.
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This is where I think it gets tricky - democracies are far from pacifistic - if you just measure the number of soldiers deployed outside their country...democracies like war better than autocracies it seems
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There’s also the observation that they rarely fight each other. But yeah militarism are a systemic level can exist despite pacifism at the individual level.
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Fairness unfortunately has no chiral effect. Being fair does not catalyze fairness in others.
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The loaf-cutting rule for two is genius. But how do you enforce it where N is greater than two?
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