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Originally posted by rhymer@Dec 1 2004, 06:37 AM
Could you please explain how we are any different than the crusaders and conquistadores who felt the same way?
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Sure, I can :-)
First democracy is not like a religion... democracy is that base, which secures that no dominating group keeps power forever. How is that? Because making societies democratic will fragment larger groups by presenting the many alternatives which are normal in a democracy.
At first democracy will be slow - only taking few members from the larger groups, but this repeats/continues over time, and at some point democracy becomes stable, and the larger groups can no longer attack all the new small groups, because the smaller groups are now the majority.
Democracy secures the freedom to think, and say what you want - this is chaos for islamists, but its what nature uses when selecting who will survive.