
Ep 17: Ch 9, Part 2: "Optimism"
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Democracy Is About Detecting and Eliminating Errors
Democracy is about trying to avoid violence. Its abats thispolitical system of non violence, instead of installing a ruler who is the best. And so the who should rule question, as papa says, and the who shouldrule question relly, it can be traced on the way back to plato. Begs for violent, authoritarian answers and has often received them,. As David Cameron writes there, echoing papa so il. Just like science seeks explanations at ar experimentally testable, so a rational political system makes it as easy as possible to detect and persuade others that a lederal policy is bad - and remove them without violence if they are so.
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