watchamn t1_ium0rd4 wrote
Reply to comment by nicoco3890 in I'm a guy trying to create a global democratic movement based on the Swiss Democracy. Ask me anything. by CitizenThinker
We can't compare direct democracy with modern democracy because of the people, the quantity of people and the media that has a massive influence on the population, and the modern perspective that we have after WW2. Nonetheless, War is necessary and legittimate as a mean to defend the nation, every single european country has a "normativa space" for cases like that.
nicoco3890 t1_ium2bcp wrote
« We can’t compare two different systems with different context » that both had the same result
Maybe because the point was that there was a third exterior factor « skewing » the results, like that people often want to go to war.
OP’s Thesis: People would not want to vote themselves into a war.
Facts: people did 2000+years ago, they would now, and will always be willing to do it.
OP is acting like Switzerland is Neutral because of their political system, when in fact it has no bearing on it, and the relevant analysis is through a geopolitical lens.
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