Petitioning to get answers from your government on all kinds of subjects is a ridiculous idea in the first place. It assumes that the Government is like your Mom or Dad and should have an answer to anything as long as enough of the kids ask the same thing. It is a sign that people are willing to delegate their responsibility to someone else making decisions (or answers, if you prefer, but that is the very same thing in the end) for them.
You do not need this. This is garbage site to entertain people in thinking they have a say in Power, while they clearly do not.
> It is a sign that people are willing to delegate their responsibility to someone else making decisions (or answers, if you prefer, but that is the very same thing in the end) for them.
This is basically the entire premise behind a representative democracy, is it not?
Yes, and I do not, personally, condone the current state of representation. There are several ways on how to manage decision-making in large communities and this is not the only one possible, especially in the 21st century with the communication tools we now possess. If the internet changes the way we shop, we travel, we connect with our friends, the way we entertain ourselves, why do we keep doing politics the same 18th century way ? (rhetorical question)
No, it isn't. The purpose of representative democracy is to add a layer of public accountability to political institutions, in order to pre-empt and suppress abuses of power.
The purpose of democracy is not to provide overriding legitimacy for any and every use of power, nor to create a nexus of external responsibility to which every question, irrespective of its nature or native context, can be outsourced without deleterious consequence.
Government is a single, well-defined institution within society, and democracy is a method for keeping that institution within its appropriate boundaries.
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Petitioning to get answers from your government on all kinds of subjects is a ridiculous idea in the first place. It assumes that the Government is like your Mom or Dad and should have an answer to anything as long as enough of the kids ask the same thing. It is a sign that people are willing to delegate their responsibility to someone else making decisions (or answers, if you prefer, but that is the very same thing in the end) for them.
You do not need this. This is garbage site to entertain people in thinking they have a say in Power, while they clearly do not.
> It is a sign that people are willing to delegate their responsibility to someone else making decisions (or answers, if you prefer, but that is the very same thing in the end) for them.
This is basically the entire premise behind a representative democracy, is it not?
Yes, and I do not, personally, condone the current state of representation. There are several ways on how to manage decision-making in large communities and this is not the only one possible, especially in the 21st century with the communication tools we now possess. If the internet changes the way we shop, we travel, we connect with our friends, the way we entertain ourselves, why do we keep doing politics the same 18th century way ? (rhetorical question)
No, it isn't. The purpose of representative democracy is to add a layer of public accountability to political institutions, in order to pre-empt and suppress abuses of power.
The purpose of democracy is not to provide overriding legitimacy for any and every use of power, nor to create a nexus of external responsibility to which every question, irrespective of its nature or native context, can be outsourced without deleterious consequence.
Government is a single, well-defined institution within society, and democracy is a method for keeping that institution within its appropriate boundaries.