Should openly fascist people be allowed to vote [for government] in your opinion?
Why should they? As in, materially, how does society benefit from that? How does the democratic decision-making tool become more useful from it? I consider democracy to be a decision-making process, so I don’t care for vague idealistic assertions like “every adult should have the right to vote” unless there’s a benefit from it. And allowing an explicitly anti-liberal, anti-democratic, bad-faith opportunist (and fascism is explicitly and openly all of those) to vote is harmful to the democratic process and increases the odds of it making a bad decision.
No, reactionaries should be rehabilitated to the best of society’s capabilities. Participation in society isn’t sacred, the purpose of democracy is to deliver the best results for the most amount of people. Reactionaries that wish to expel and murder minority groups should be treated as any other violent criminal, through rehabilitation if possible.
it should not be allowed to be represented in a truly democratic election in the first place. acting fascists should be criminalized.
its the paradox of tolerance: we need everyone to have a baseline level of respect for each other for society to work harmoniously. fascism singles out defenseless groups to blame for their problems, breaking this harmony. and so it distracts its followers from the real causes and people they should be looking into.
Should openly fascist people be allowed to vote in your opinion? Just curious what peoples’ take on this is.
Why should they? As in, materially, how does society benefit from that? How does the democratic decision-making tool become more useful from it? I consider democracy to be a decision-making process, so I don’t care for vague idealistic assertions like “every adult should have the right to vote” unless there’s a benefit from it. And allowing an explicitly anti-liberal, anti-democratic, bad-faith opportunist (and fascism is explicitly and openly all of those) to vote is harmful to the democratic process and increases the odds of it making a bad decision.
Openly fascist people should not be allowed to draw breath.
No, reactionaries should be rehabilitated to the best of society’s capabilities. Participation in society isn’t sacred, the purpose of democracy is to deliver the best results for the most amount of people. Reactionaries that wish to expel and murder minority groups should be treated as any other violent criminal, through rehabilitation if possible.
it should not be allowed to be represented in a truly democratic election in the first place. acting fascists should be criminalized.
its the paradox of tolerance: we need everyone to have a baseline level of respect for each other for society to work harmoniously. fascism singles out defenseless groups to blame for their problems, breaking this harmony. and so it distracts its followers from the real causes and people they should be looking into.
The guy’s a braindead pedant. He’s not here to have a discussion, he’s here to feel superior.
please relax my dude
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