PHILOS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Paternalism
22 Apr 2019
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Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by then or by their elected agents under a free electoral system. Democracy -- letting so many untrained people lead a country. Puts amateurs in charge of the most complex profession there is; recipe for disaster. Without training, people do not know what is always best for them. The idea that we need some kind of especially trained and skilled political leader, who knows that we need, better than we ourselves do - and who will rule us accordingly. Father vs child relationship-must blindly obey the rules of the state. Real democracy occurs when all of the people of a nation come together to make the decisions. Only when everyone that will be ruled by the decision actually participates in making it. Never been a real democracy and there never will be; it"s impossible.
