▲ | zahlman 15 hours ago | |
> Disqualifications may include I don't see why; many of those have nothing to do with what I would understand the concept of "democracy" to entail. | ||
▲ | runarberg 13 hours ago | parent [-] | |
I am predicting (and hoping) that the concept of democracy will continue to shift towards ever greater inclusion and increased human rights as it has in the past two centuries, and a future vision of democracy would disqualify the current system as undemocratic for some of the points above. Just like how we don’t view pre-civil rights USA as democratic by modern standards. For example, we would never consider a country with legalized slavery to be democratic today. Similarly a future concept of democracy is unlikely to consider a country which practices the death penalty to be democratic by that hypothetical future standard. |