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77 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 12 Aug \ on: Should Kids Under 18 be Allowed to Vote? A Short Conversation with My Son Politics_And_Law
I kind of enjoyed Paul Sztorc's lengthy essay on Democracy (#1070270), where I think the upshot was: people should vote, but the only options should be Yes or No. Yes: keep the people in office, we like what they are doing. No: throw the bums out, and give us something different.
Your son sounds like he is well on his way to being a person worth knowing.
Both of my sons are amazing people in their own ways. I thank God for them every day.
I don't really have a super strong opinion on what "should be done". I mean, that's kinda the point. I'm not humble but I guess I'm too humble to think I know how societies should organize if what has been tried already doesn't work.
I really like Hoppe's book "Democracy, the god that failed" and his vision seems plausible. I don't know that it is perfect but free market's and choice coupled with a shared cultural moral bond makes sense to me. That gets very difficult at a national level and I really think that's the real problem. Democracy doesn't scale and it can't really work well on its own. But then, none of these systems work on their own.
They all work better when you have a shared idea of right/wrong and higher trust societies.
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