Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings
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On Thursday 08 March 2007 23:12, Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> was heard
to say:
> Do you really mean that societies
> are better off when governed by tyrants than when governed by
> democratically elected governments?
Actually, what I said was "monarchy and oligarchy", not "tyranny". As
any American who finds himself on the "no fly list" if tyranny cannot
happen with a democratically elected government, and they will assure
you it most certainly can.
> Do you think that this has been
> historically true WRT the actual tyrants and actual democratic
> governments that the world has experienced?
Again with the tyrants. If you want to compare tyrants and
non-tyrants, sure. Any non-tyrant is going to be better than a
tyrant, elected or not.
But if you want to compare _systems_, you could try looking at reviews
and excerpts of Hanse Hermann Hoppe's _Democracy, the God That
Failed_. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy:_The_God_That_Failed
Agree or disagree, it's always interesting when someone attacks one of
the present-day dogmas, like Galeleo saying the earth moved around
the sun, or Maddison saying that a limited government can be
restrained by a document that that same government enforces. :^)
Or that a massive software development can be accomplished without
deadlines and managers.
Curt-
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September 11th, 2001
The proudest day for gun control and central
planning advocates in American history
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