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Overcoming ‘trouble’ is a very big trouble

שו”תCategory: generalOvercoming ‘trouble’ is a very big trouble
asked 7 years ago

Respected
Since Israeli and global discourse has recently been flooded with warnings about the looming dangers to the development of democracy, I have devoted quite a bit of thought to the matter, and the following insights have arisen in me:
In the United States, which pretends to represent and even tried to impose its democratic values, blacks were discriminated against under the auspices of democracy, and they are still disadvantaged under the auspices of democracy today. Under the auspices of democracy, one can buy weapons, because lobbying is a legal part of the US democratic system.
Democratic European countries and Britain ruled over other peoples in Africa and Asia, while maintaining democracy internally, and it took bloody wars for these peoples to liberate themselves.
So maybe it’s time to sober up, and instead of swearing allegiance to democracy, find an alternative value – perhaps equality of human value?!
Regards

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מיכי Staff answered 7 years ago

A., the question is not to what value we swear allegiance, but whether we are good people or not. Democracy is a good mechanism (or the lesser evil), but when people are bad they make bad use of a good system. This will happen even if you find an alternative value that everyone swears allegiance to. They will simply do everything you described under it.
One of the sickening evils of our (democratic?) thinking is that problems of substance can be solved through legislation or the adoption of some formal system. A top-down, be-all and end-all solution. Usually this does not solve the problem, and sometimes it even intensifies it.
See on this subject on my website, columns 48-9:
https:// mikyab .net/%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%92%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%94-%D7%94%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%9B%D7%94-%D7%91%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%9 5%D7%AA-%D7%94%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%98%D7%99-%D7%9E%D7%9E%D7%A1%D7%93%D7%99%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%98%D7%95%D7%A8-4/

https:// mikyab .net/bottom-%D7%90%D7%95-top-%D7%98%D7%95%D7%A8-49/

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