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u/ AlfredicEnglishRules : Were you ever reading original Heinlein's Starship Troopers ? Let me quote old teacher colonel Dubois:

This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because thepeople had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted . . .and get it, without toil, without sweat, without tears.

And old Major Reid:

To vote is to wield authority; it is the supreme authority from which all other authority derives -- such as mine to make your lives miserable once a day. Force, ifyou will! -- the franchise is force, naked and raw, the Power of the Rods and the Ax.Whether it is exerted by ten men or by ten billion, political authority is force.""But this universe consists of paired dualities. What is the converse of authority? Mr.Rico."He had picked one I could answer. "Responsibility, sir."" Applause. Both for practical reasons and for mathematically verifiable moral reasons,authority and responsibility must be equal -- else a balancing takes place as surely as current flows between points of unequal potential. To permit irresponsible authority is to sow disaster; to hold a man responsible for anything he does not control is to behave with blind idiocy. The unlimited democracies were unstable because their citizens were not responsible for the fashion in which they exerted their sovereign authority . . . other than through the tragic logic of history. The unique poll tax' that we must pay was unheard of. No attempt was made to determine whether a voter was socially responsible to the extent of his literally unlimited authority. If he voted the impossible, the disastrous possible happened instead -- and responsibility was then forced on him willy-nilly and destroyed both him and his foundationless temple.""Superficially, our system is only slightly different; we have democracy unlimited byrace, color, creed, birth, wealth, sex, or conviction, and anyone may win sovereign power by a usually short and not too arduous term of service -- nothing more than a light workout to our cave-man ancestors. But that slight difference is one between a system that works, since it is constructed to match the facts, and one that is inherently unstable.Since sovereign franchise is the ultimate in human authority, we insure that all who wield it accept the ultimate in social responsibility -- we require each person who wishes to exert control over the state to wager his own life -- and lose it, if need be -- to save the life of the state. The maximum responsibility a human can accept is thus equated to the ultimate authority a human can exert. Yin and yang, perfect and equal."

Well I could call it indeed prophecy.

Indeed - lack of responsibility leads to people behaving like stupid children. Including women in case you mention.

3 years ago
1 score
Reason: Original

u/ AlfredicEnglishRules : Were you ever reading original Heinlein's Starship Troopers ? Let me quote old teacher colonel Dubois:

This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because thepeople had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted . . .and get it, without toil, without sweat, without tears.

And old Major Reid:

To vote is to wield authority; it is the supreme authority from which allother authority derives -- such as mine to make your lives miserable once a day. Force, ifyou will! -- the franchise is force, naked and raw, the Power of the Rods and the Ax.Whether it is exerted by ten men or by ten billion, political authority is force.""But this universe consists of paired dualities. What is the converse of authority? Mr.Rico."He had picked one I could answer. "Responsibility, sir.""Applause. Both for practical reasons and for mathematically verifiable moral reasons,authority and responsibility must be equal -- else a balancing takes place as surely ascurrent flows between points of unequal potential. To permit irresponsible authority isto sow disaster; to hold a man responsible for anything he does not control is to behavewith blind idiocy. The unlimited democracies were unstable because their citizens werenot responsible for the fashion in which they exerted their sovereign authority . . . otherthan through the tragic logic of history. The unique poll tax' that we must pay wasunheard of. No attempt was made to determine whether a voter was socially responsibleto the extent of his literally unlimited authority. If he voted the impossible, the disastrouspossible happened instead -- and responsibility was then forced on him willy-nilly anddestroyed both him and his foundationless temple.""Superficially, our system is only slightly different; we have democracy unlimited byrace, color, creed, birth, wealth, sex, or conviction, and anyone may win sovereignpower by a usually short and not too arduous term of service -- nothing more than a light workout to our cave-man ancestors. But that slight difference is one between a systemthat works, since it is constructed to match the facts, and one that is inherently unstable.Since sovereign franchise is the ultimate in human authority, we insure that all whowield it accept the ultimate in social responsibility -- we require each person who wishesto exert control over the state to wager his own life -- and lose it, if need be -- to save thelife of the state. The maximum responsibility a human can accept is thus equated to the ultimate authority a human can exert. Yin and yang, perfect and equal."

Well I could call it indeed prophecy.

3 years ago
1 score