Message from @Weez
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I agree, which is probably why we will just get slow doses of it over time.
Doses of what?
Egalitarianism
In my view, this is the way society is headed anyway.
It *seems* whether people disagree with egalitarianism or not, they’re slowly getting more of it.
For example, more and more countries are becoming socially liberal, something that pushes egalitarianism.
That seems impossible, there will always be those with most of the power, and those with virtually none
The argument for that is, the power difference can be lowered
Both socially and economically
And that’s what you see happening today. Government and parties attempting to do that.
It's a paradox, if you strive to create equality of power and you need power to do so, then you're creating a power imbalance
The harder you try to create a power equality, the less you can actually have it
The argument for that then would be, remove the barriers to getting that power. IE, allow people to run for office and government.
So even if there’s a power imbalance there, anyone could get that by running for office and getting elected by their peers.
That's too inefficient, no one would win
Why not? One offers something the other does not, something more beneficial to the voter.
It’s a free market of ideas. 😉
Who decides who has the best arguments?
The voters.
Then that's a power imbalance
Because the losers are not "morally wrong", they just lose
For example
It's the most simple example, but it also happens on a large scale unless tempered
Two wolves and a sheep vote on what's for dinner
Clearly the sheep is going to lose
This is the fundamental flaw of a democratic system, it doesn't change anything about a power imbalance, in fact it brings it out
I understand what you mean, you can use different methods of voting and election to achieve as much equality as possible
In my view, that would be better than the current system. Even if it’s not 100% perfect.
My goal is to minimise that inequality as much as possible.
Even if I don’t achieve 100% equality, it doesn’t matter. As long as we’re closer to it, that’s fine.
The way I see it, the solution to this problem lies in an anti-democratic approach
Democracy must be tempered, not absolute
Then the problem is, how do people get elected to govern themselves?
Raffle?
For example, the solution of the wolves and the sheep lies in letting the sheep have guns so if they lose the vote they can kill the wolves
Which means the wolves won't vote to eat the sheep
The problem is, how do you decide who governs who?
That's an eternal struggle, governance is inevitable (as demonstrated by history)
Injustice, inequality, imbalance, and suffering as a result, it's part of life
But surely we can try minimise those injustices, inequality, imbalance and suffering 😉