On 29/07/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)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