so we can avoid blame for our actions

ok, if 51% of the population decided to buy gold tomorrow, the price of gold would go up, having an effect on the other 49% so that's not allowed?/

Ah! In many countries, what you just said, IS BANNED

Try that in India

buying gold?

yes

once again, not saying its right or wrong, but that gets determined at a gov level

Consider yourself lucky you are allowed to in the west. most of it anyway

sure but that's not the people

well, not ALL people. Some. The question is, does the Gov represent the people? When does it represent them and not?

I mean you started using the term people when you said people should decide what is a benefit

to me people means individual humans

OK, lets define the term so we can quit being nebulous about it.

To me "people" is the will of the largest homogeneous block

or at least A homogeneous block.

Individuals are honestly quite useless on their own.

I don't really have an image in my head of what the largest homogenous block looks like exactly

In any "nation" really.

do you mean like, a block of people with the same opinion?

or same ethnicity?

I mean block of people with the same culture/heritage. So yeah, more than likely ethnicity

^ There's the people deciding

Bingo

the 'individual"

what if they don't have the same will?

who bears no loyalty to "the people"

how do you determine the will of this "people"

They can have a differing will. Thats normal. Then they will democratically decide

preferably.

so if we take the US for example

The US can NEVER have democracy.

white people will make a vote

and that vote will be the will of the people

?

I just want to hug the guy running that account @Str3tch

no homo

>Democracy

degenerate

For white people yes. That is why Democracy is horribly broken in the US

because wypipo vote on laws all the time