Message from @DanConway
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Across the globe
The french revolution was a horrible condition
Bastile day is a lie
True, but the idea of the people ruling themselves and not a godgiven monarch was an insane idea at the time
That was not what happened
People do not "rule" themselves
I think i worded it wrongly
I meant to say
The people electing officials to govern in their name
Popular sovereignty
Republicanism and aristocracy balanced makes a better society
more absolute democracy is a mob
The third estate effectively running the country
Absolute direct democracy might be a noble idea on paper but it doesnt work
Look at ancient athens
I agree
Every day they had to drag people out of their houses
The punishment for not participating was a fine
but people who argue for more democracy are the problem in todays society
And it was still a shitshow
Maybe, but on the other hand despotism restricts everything to the whim of the despot
Look at China when it was an empire
If the emperor decreed something shouldnt be done, it was not done
So when Zheng He started voyaging the seas and the emperor decreed China should close itself off
It missed an opportunity to potentially discover the Americas
Are property rights not law and order
The natural law must be held as a transcendental entity that man cannot change
In what context?
Natural law
That is a good question, but natural law is a subjective thing
Whatever I have in mind, someone else might not
Thus would arise issues when this law is broken
If it subjective than you can only descend into progressivism
That’s why written laws are really fantastic
Yeah but we don’t do our daily business by natural law
If I stab someone or take their property, I’m judged under written law of the country i’m in
which comes from what
it is derived from the natural law
I can’t really confirm or deny that since natural law is quite an obscure thing to call upon
I think it’s more based on morality