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Originally Posted by Azure
Freedom is a natural right?
I hope you would agree.
Is there any other form of government, outside of anarchism that provides freedom in the manner democracy does?
I mean, democracy has its failures too, but it is by far the best system for human beings. By far.
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I'm sorry, but I disagree.
Freedom is a natural desire, but not a natural right. It has to be earned, and to work on a societal level, it has to be culturally instilled (usually over the course of centuries). IMO, the only natural right we have is to exercise our will to survive and pro-create. Anything that has been constructed by humans in the past few centuries has been a removal from nature for the most part.
In nature, humans are heirarchial animals. The amount of freedom an individual has is dependent on their ability to exert power over the individuals below them. You can look anywhere in history to see this - from prehistoric humans, all the way up through civilization until now. Even as we speak, the majority of the humans on this planet do not have "free" societies and never have.
In a lot of ways, the world still works like this (with many "democratic" countries being the ones exerting power and control over lesser developed societies).