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Thursday September 12, 2013 @02:14AM (#44827389) Journal
Interestingly, we have a similar tradeoff between monarchy and
democracy. A monarchy would be clearly more efficient and all
around better if we could guarantee we had a good king. And a
good deal of the philosophy between the years 1000-1900 was
about how society can guarantee to have a good king.      But
since that can't be guaranteed, and the abuses caused by a bad
king far outweigh the benefits, it is better to endure the
inefficiency (and dare I say, stupidity of your neighbors?) of
democracy and the checks and balances than to give all that
power to one man.      by wordsnyc (956034) on Thursday
September 12, 2013 @02:42AM (#44827499) Homepage      how a
prize named after Andrei Sakharov is gonna g