What I'm trying -- and perhaps failing -- to say here is that I don't care what you think nearly so much as I care why you think it. I'm unlikely to learn anything from the former, but I may well learn something from the latter.
Democracy, at its purest, requires an educated populace. This was presumed in the original Greek version.
Things that are less stated, but seem presumed is that you have a commonality of belief. Given the same set of facts, we can reach differing conclusions based on our beliefs. This may include morality, but it may include other things as well.
The other thing is that the population needs to be small enough to sustain a commonality of belief. This works okay in a greek city-state of yore, but I can't see how that'd ever work today. I suspect that's an argument further in the Irony of Democracy, but I haven't gotten that far in the book.
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Democracy, at its purest, requires an educated populace. This was presumed in the original Greek version.
Things that are less stated, but seem presumed is that you have a commonality of belief. Given the same set of facts, we can reach differing conclusions based on our beliefs. This may include morality, but it may include other things as well.
The other thing is that the population needs to be small enough to sustain a commonality of belief. This works okay in a greek city-state of yore, but I can't see how that'd ever work today. I suspect that's an argument further in the Irony of Democracy, but I haven't gotten that far in the book.