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by IncRnd 1763 days ago
That's a false choice.

I was not suggesting that anyone bomb anyone else. I asked a question, which is still unanswered, about your statement which was in essence, "if a people want authoritarian rule, they should be free to chose it."

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Your question will not be answered, because it does not make sense.

In a democracy, a majority can not vote on the rights of a minority. There is a constitution, a bill of rights. But to get there _people have to chose democracy_ over authoritarianism. As long as they don't do that by themselves, we only have the options to show them by example why they should want it, or to force them to want it.

Wherever we tried to force it, it recoiled.

Democracy doesn't infer that there's a constitution defending minorities.

Modern democracies generally have that, but it's not required