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Rationally Speaking #176 - Jason Brennan on "Against democracy"

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The Meaning of the Right to Vote

The right to vote has a symbolic value, but is it written into the fabric of the universe? The 4-A tribe of Poppy New Guinea used to have a semionic code under which in order to show respect for your father upon his death, you're supposed to eat his brain. Failure to do so would be disrespectful. But then they stopped doing it because people were getting pryon-based disease as a basis of eating brain. Well, what if it turned out that the practice of imbuing the right to vote with all this power was similarly destructive? It was similarly causing harm to people? If that were the case, I think it's reason to maybe change the sem

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