Quote from: Elwar on October 01, 2011, 06:06:39 PM

Quote from: onesalt on October 01, 2011, 12:44:58 AM

DEMOCRACY IS BAD BUT I REFUSE TO OFFER UP AN ALTERNATIVE SYSTEM WHICH WOULD BE FAIRER - Every single poster on this forum, to be perfectly honest

Alternative system offered which would be fairer:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=46130.0

This isn't an alternative system it's a democratic choice where in addition you can buy more votes and untracably bribe voters, which makes it a terrible fucking system since the person with the most money will invariably win, or at least do far far better. Additionally the addition of a "time element" is just stupid and dumb. All it does is prolongs the results of a legitimate vote (if 51% of people voted for something that means the majority of people wanted it, hth) for no obvious reason, which just makes governing by that system both inefficient and stupid. inefficient

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I don't think you want a system to be completely, 100% fair. But I'll have to think about that... sometimes, the best thing for society isn't what is fair.

Regardless, a republic is the best system a government can use. A true democracy would allow media to control the government - they could sway the people however they wanted just by publicizing garbage.

so what you're saying is that because the media can influence people the system itself is at fault? That's a terrible argument, since it's not democracy or the voting system at fault but some other, third party.

Oh also, a republic is a type of democracy, Infact, the US is already Federal Republic, and most EU countries are a parliamentary republic.