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« on: October 24, 2014, 03:59:57 AM » |
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« edited: October 24, 2014, 04:04:34 AM by Breaking hearts and minds »
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While being invented in and by the West, I don't believe that democracy is inherently restricted to the Western world. There are also functioning democracies in other "cultural" regions of the world (Buddhism/Shinto: Japan, Islam: Indonesia, Hinduism: India etc.).
Of course there are also a couple of prerequisites for a functioning democracy. First and foremost, before you can worry about who is governing you and how, your belly needs to be full. A sufficient level of education/literacy is also an important condition.
That being said, I'm highly critical of the practice of "exporting" democracy through the means of arms. Something Cheney, Rumsfeld and the likes seemed to strongly believe in.
(An entirely different issues would be military intevention to prevent genocide or other impending massacres, something I'm less critical of.)
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