>>42
Let me clarify, then. What do I call this system, with all it's flaws? What term do I give Democracy when Democracy isn't holding up to Democracy's expectations? I say it's Democracy's fault not to point out that the system is vastly inferior [to tyranny]. I'm only pointing out that Democracy isn't doing what it's supposed to be doing. Who's fault is it that Democracy isn't working the way it's drum-beaters claim it is? Hahaha...Tyranny's?
>>43
"What the fuck do you expect me to do? Go back in time and single-handedly bring all the slavers and tyrants to justice? All I can do is support democracy and oppose tyranny, which is incidentally what I am doing when I stand up for people's right not to be judged for crimes they have not committed."
No, but at the very least you can stop making allowances for their past lack of ethics? You're basically saying that slavery, colonization and all that was a fair trade for what you percieve to be system that is better than tyranny. Not everyone is enjoying the benefits of Democracy [some are actually victims of it] and it has less to do with competing ideologies and more to do with the slap-dash, half-handed, morally reprehensible way Democracy has been forced on the rest of the world.
Stop deluding yourself into thinking that you're standing up for anyone but yourself. Just because you're standing up for people not to judged for crime they have not committed, doesn't mean you just ignore those are
actually committing crimes in the first place. When you stick up for the end result without addressing the means, it makes you a casual supporter of past misdeeds. The crime you commit is moral complatency and intellectual apathy.
"I fail to see why you think democracy is evil because it does not eliminate all sufferring and crime in humanity. No one said it was perfect, but compared to tyranny it's a hell of a lot better."
In that case you're a just a general failure. What is so hard to understand? Democracy doesn't have to eliminate *all* suffering and crime. That's not what I'm talking about. What I am referring to is the unadulterated fact that Democracy is using the tactics of tyrants to further Democracy's goals and that, in and of itself, is
UNdemocratic.
Those who continue to taut Democracy as the greatest ideal, while at same ignoring and CHOOSING to remain ignorant that those fighting in the Democracy's name are causing just as much suffering and pain as past tyrants are SLAVES. Mindless, fucking slaves.