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10. November 2009, 16:55:03

Übergeek 바둑이

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Modified by Übergeek 바둑이 (11. November 2009, 01:15:50)

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I was trying to get to the fact that those who right now are telling us that the majority is stupid will be the first to complain about "big" government and the government "telling us what to do".

I grew up in Guatemala under a real distatorship. The kind that sent tanks into the streets, made people disappear and massacred 300,000 people just to keep the capitalist elite in power. Anybody who thinks that the majority is stupid is just arrogant. Just because the majority of the people hold a view opposite to mine it does not mean that they are stupid. It is like saying "I am smart and the rest of the world is stupid". It is just arrogance.

The masses might not be well informed. They might hold backward views. They might be easily manipulated by demagogues and the media they control. They might choose undesirable people to lead them. However, if the masses are stupid, then why promote democracy or freedom? Why send 1.5 million Iraqis to their deaths? 1.4 million Afghans? 6 million Vietnamese? 3 million North Koreans? If the masses are stupid, then it is impossible to justify those wars fought to "protect freedom and democracy".