What is the alternative to some form of democracy? All I can think of is "whoever fights the best gets their way." Is democracy a ritualised form of combat?
Situations like, one group wants to preserve a wilderness area, another group wants to clear it for timber / farm land. How do you even decide which group should prevail?
Gary Houston
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