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@raqdog not gone be pretty when China or India is almost on par with them
wonder what the Union would do to preserve its place
Nope, they are coming. The cultures are so different. Kids in American elementary schools test somewhere around 25th or worse in math
Compared to other 1st world countries
But they score #1 in their confidence to do math
In China it's the exact opposite. They test much higher in ability to do math, and Lower in confidence
America is in it's dumbing down phase. We've got a very toxic and coddled culture.
if you look at individual states you'll notice it can get way more competitive. Places like california are skewing it a lot. Still needs to be fixed after so many years of neglect by democrats.
Gen Z is showing some hope, too. thankfully.
the youth is the future, as always
The youth is Hispanic which has a very different outlook on education
lol
Democracy is the will of the people
If the people willingly choose a dictator
That is democracy
so people collectively deciding on imposing nuclear suicide on the human race is equally democratic then
That is an absurd scenario, but yes.
If democracy is pure then whatever wins, wins.
It isn't like the people of Brazil don't know who Bolsonaro is
democracy in your context could not care about outcomes.
again with the contextual example I used
That is democracy in any context.
It is what the definition is
The will of the people
the will of the people does not account for outcomes lol
but obviously, we have some ounce of rationality in our society even with uneducateds in it, so that isn't happening
That isn't democracy then
Democracy includes the uneducated
Pure democracy is dangerous, right? Why not let the smartest people in a Gaussian distribution make the decisions.
2 standard deviations above the rest only
IQ doesn't inherently make people decent human beings
That's dangerous too, but a better alternative
No, it doesn't. But you don't want the decision makers to be too morally inflated.
I dunno where to find a balance. Probably the way the US does it, we have a good balance of cold hard truth and coddling ourselves like infants
The US is far from a democracy
I never said it was
They do a good job balancing the duality though. Seems like the power shifts every election cycle between what's expediently moral, and hard truths that need to be discussed in order to get desired outcomes in the long run
The courts are more powerful than any other branch
And not much gets done