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When Utilitarianism becomes mob rule : Comments
By Dara Macdonald, published 17/10/2022We are all Benthamites now! Declared my Criminal Law lecturer at university. And never has the axiom that the way measure of right and wrong is the greatest happiness for the greatest number been more popular.
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Posted by Canem Malum, Friday, 21 October 2022 2:46:29 AM
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The fatal flaw of democracy is the theory of majority rule which easily degenerates into the tyranny of the majority if it is not checked by a strong tradition of individual rights, free speech and institutions that provide checks and balances as the writers of the US Constitution did their best to achieve.
Limited government is much more important than giving votes out to everyone and that might have been understood by the leaders of democratic movements while Christianity still provided the moral framework for the west. The rise of socialism and especially Marxism put several gigantic spokes in the wheels of peace, freedom and prosperity. The wreckers got a lot of help from Plato who in some respects poisoned the well of western political thought, especially with his theory of collective justice that underpins modern collectivism and identity politics. Posted by Pericles2, Monday, 24 October 2022 12:17:16 PM
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More on Plato's collectivist theory of justice and the totalitarian state.
http://www.the-rathouse.com/OpenSocietyOnLIne/Chapter-6-Platonic-Justice.html Posted by Pericles2, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 7:13:17 AM
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http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=22190#387492
I'm sure that the woke and communists are on the watch for Counter Revolutionaries. Most of the population just want to live their lives with their own culture but at some stage they will realise that if they don't do anything they'll be prisoners- they need to stand up for their own interest- and their own territory- and not be influenced by the politics of "white guilt" and "communist multiculturalism". As Nietszche said "politics is for the rich and the idle". Ayn Rand said similar implying that communism has the smell of a stinking rotting corpse.