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How to run a country; What's the best way of governing a large amount of people?
Topic Started: Sunday Jan 16 2011, 10:02 PM (129 Views)
Lexanimus
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Personally I'm way more concerned about the thought of one person (no matter how smart they may or may not be) running a country than leaving it in the hands of the public.
But I think that 'the masses' are smarter than people give them credit for.

Phrixscreoth
 
Oh, I'm just as concerned with one person running a country as well. What I would prefer is a small number of individuals who have no ability for political manuvering and get shit done. Properly.

Xamad
Sunday Jan 16 2011, 02:32 AM
hahaha. If there is one thing history has taught us is that individual people are too easily corrupted and the masses take forever to get anything done. Let God run the country and everything else will follow.

Phrixscreoth
 
Actually, that's an even WORSE idea (when did we get so serious?). Historically (A.D, anyway), god(s) have not shown the greatest inititive in leading countries, or, y'know, any inititive to do anything at all (that we can attribute to god(s)). That leaves it to figure heads to speak for the god(s). Which are people, which, as you pointed out, are too easily corrupted.

Also, to my unresearched and generally disinterested memory, theorcracys tend to be full of censorship and rage towards everyone who isn't them. At least we'd have justification for starting wars; everyone else is a heathen (~.~).

And, while not trully a valid point, every Science Fiction story (not Sci-Fi, Science Fiction. As in an extrapolation of humanity into the future to postulate what our current practices will evolve into) says that theocracy doesn't end well.

Lexanimus
 
How can God "run the country"? Running a country requires, y'know, legitimate physical presence, and my impression is that God's a little more incorporeal than that. (I'm assuming you're talking about God of the Christian faith.) Even making the irrational assumption that God has left some specific instructions on how to run things (scripture, I assume), when has that ever led to anything superior to the nations run by individuals and/or the masses? You must know how often theocracies (rule by divine guidance) resulted in things from societies with deeply-ingrained bigotry to large-scale genocidal wars justified by organized religion.

You be trolling?
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I'm not sure this will end well. Any time discussions of politics are riddled with references to sci-fi or dystopian literature instead of to academic writings or a history of economics and civil rights movements, the discussion turns to snark.

Most likely my own snark.
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Phrixscreoth
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Eh, I think it's more of a problem that any topic that gets moved in here dies.



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You be trolling?

Yeah pretty much... But if it is true that all humans are corruptible (which I assume we all agree with?), then logically only a non-human (Divine being or otherwise) could be incorruptible and would therefore make a good leader/politician or what have you.

Edit: Move to srs topic if you want


*facepalm*

WHAT divine beings?

Or are you suggesting rabits should run goverments?

... actually...
Edited by Phrixscreoth, Tuesday Jan 18 2011, 11:55 AM.
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Aliens.... whatever.
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