Good Versus Evil
You seem to me to be a born worrierGuilty. Worrying is a part of me. The thing that keeps me going.
You get upset because I don't have the answersJoe, I don't think that you read what I wrote. I did not say that I was upset that you don't have the answers. I said quite the opposite: that you [in a holier-than-thou tone of voice (as far as it can come through in a written medium)] were talking as if you did and that I should just accept that.
If I find that some folks in a district in Florida are misrepresenting vote counts, I arrest them and throw them in jail.Absolutely, bang on. I agree with you. So, did anyone misrepresent the vote counts? Some people say they did. Some people say that they didn't. I don't know which is right. Do you? Don't bother answering that, it was a rhetorical question. Fortunately, I think that we are merging to a common, somewhat agreed upon answer. And you put it well:
... it depends ... But I trust that a democratic society will make the right choices.This conversation got off discussing why society has to arm itself to protect itself against the time when democracy doesn't produce a just result (not something I agreed with). But, I think that democracy, flawed though our implementations of it may be, is the best we've got. And, while I don't think that it always does produce a just result, we're going to have to accept it. But that doesn't mean that we should stop talking about its injustices, just that we have to make sure that we don't blow each other up while doing so. As Winston Churchill said:
"Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried."
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