On 29/07/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Both direct and representative democracy have their shortcomings. A truly democratic system should be temporal as well as spatial. In other words there cna be no final determinative vote on almost anything because those votes make no allowance for the views of those who have not yet joined us.
That was a joke right? You can't just wait forever because someone "might" come. Policies in the real world have to be made in some finite timespace. Half of wikipedia's problems may indeed come from the fact that policies are argued over endlessly, through opinions like yours that the more argument/time and effort spent, the better the situation will "possibly be". Ever heard of the concept of diminishing returns, and/or the concept of negative return on investment.
Peter Ansell