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Bruce Charles Larson

Is Representative Government rational?

Is the paradigm of Representative Government a rational endeavor for intelligent humans?  There is no requirement of intelligence or education in order to be elected as a Public Servant.  If all Public servants are less intelligent and less educated than ordinary citizens how can Representation ever be actually 'representative' when the representatives are incapable of representing anything but their own self interest, by their own limits of cognition...

There are a plethora of more intelligent and participative methods of Governance which are infinitely better for human beings as an intelligent lifeform...  All are better than the current paradigm built on lies, manipulation, fiction, violence, coercion, and force - all principles antithetical of Freedom, Independence, and Liberty.  Why do we choose to live under what amounts to a puerile populist mentality of 'gang-warfare' under 'mob-rules' while calling every other 'Gang' criminals because they have different philosophies of acceptable behavior?

asked on Saturday, Oct 30, 2021 08:51:20 PM by Bruce Charles Larson

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TrappedPrior (RotE) writes:

Hello, and welcome.

I'm confused - are you giving us your opinion, or presenting a piece of work and asking if we think there are any fallacies in it?

The purpose of this website is to point out fallacious arguments; it's not a general debate forum. If you're giving your personal view here, then there are other sites available for that.

posted on Sunday, Oct 31, 2021 05:38:44 AM
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Shawn writes:

Perhaps you could reword your post in a way that we could examine the fallacy. As it stands right now you have posted, more or less, an opinion. For example

"Representative Government means that less intelligent and less educated people are placed in positions of power and responcibility but, due to their limits of cognition, they only end up representing their own self-interests. Therefore, Representative Government should be abolished and be replaced with a system which possesses more intelligence and has more participative methods of governance." 

Some possible fallacies in operation include:

alleged certainty  

appeal to consequences

appeal to emotion

appeal to extremes

appeal to fear 

appeal to self-evident truth

appeal to stupidity

appeal to emotional language 

biased sample fallacy

And probably a host of other fallacies. But that should suffice 

posted on Sunday, Oct 31, 2021 07:29:59 AM

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