It requires reason to understand the consequences of your decisions. Reason is something democracies have a shortage of. Thus, democracies structurally suffer from issues like this.

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Ajedi32 19 hours ago | parent [-]

It worked great for the last several hundred years. The problem is that as government keeps expanding to control more and more of our lives, every decision it makes it necessarily imposes on everyone, whether they agree with that decision or not.

E.g. In a country of 100M people, if 60% agree with a bill and it becomes law, the country has imposed that law on 40M people against their will. That's just as true in a dictatorship as it is in a democracy. The more areas of our lives government involves itself in, the bigger this problem becomes.

	▲	DangitBobby 9 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Whether it's federal, state, or local, you're going to see laws imposed on the 40% of people who don't agree with it. From what I've seen it's the federal legislature that is interested in protecting my rights and the state and local legislatures that want to infringe on my rights. The governments we are under have never been particularly hands off.
	▲	betaby 18 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> It worked great for the last several hundred years. No, it did not. > E.g. In a country of 100M people, if 60% agree with a bill and it becomes law That's not how that law was adopted.