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If there is no way to compel those who find a majority decision distasteful to go along with it, then the last thing one would want to do is to hold a...more

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We are usually told that democracy originated in ancient Athens—like science, or philosophy, it was a Greek invention. It’s never entirely clear what ...more

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So how do the people resist unjust authority, which, we all agree, they must and should do and have done in the past? The best solution anyone has com...more

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What if freedom were the ability to make up our minds about what it was we wished to pursue, with whom we wished to pursue it, and what sort of commit...more

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The police can use violence to say, expel citizens from a public park because they are enforcing duly constituted laws. Laws gain their legitimacy fro...more

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While opposing injustice nonviolently, he (Gandhi) insisted, is always morally superior to opposing it violently, opposing injustice violently is stil...more