Re: Justinian I call thee outeth!
Grab thy sword and prepare for combat.
I am going to get you to concede a Republic is the best form of Government.
You have bounced along from a 'Benevolent Tyranny' to 'A government by the smartest' to even at times suggesting a government by the political, economic, and military elite.
Your views on Governments is weaksauce and I intend to get a concession from you on this!
Empirical Evidence shows all nations where a single leader was made in sense life long ruler in modern times under the premise of 'being a caring leader' or a leader who will bring 'Utopia' has in fact done the opposite. Hugo Chavez, Castro, Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, and Ghandi are my examples.
Hugo has increased poverty, decreased his nations buying power, and stifled people from complaining.
Castro took a tropical paradise with a booming economy and made it so everyone struggles on a daily basis. They imprisoned people for opposing their views and when prior to the revolution people SOUGHT to live there, people now seek to leave there.
Mao killed more people than anyone else in his nation. He forced people to attempt draconian ideas, raped little girls, and engaged in wars and made a nation clearly intent on war.
Stalin was runner up for most killed, only he was more brutal about it. He never liked bad news, which lead to people reporting only good news even if this was a lie. This affected the Soviet Union through its whole life of course.
Pol Pot made history by being per capita the biggest democide man in world history. He was brutal and you better be in his group or you were on his hunting list.
Ghandi kicked the British out, but had no means then to handle the Islamists. His failures lead to China invading once, and to many skirmishes wth Pakistan. He failed to create a formal layout to prevent conflict, he in a sense lead to the nuclearization of two nations who are essentially blood enemies and to a general slow down of his nations growth for a number of decades.
Every one of them has more flaws, but I expect you to concede none have worked out so well.
So next we have your dream nations. A nation ruled by the smartest huh? Ok so how do you judge this? Nerds or Geeks? Each has their issues, but few would naysay their intelligence. Socially inept, prone to talking over peoples heads.... or unprepared for their theories to meet real world conditions and such. We could declare Mensa people... but then be prepared for them to declare harsh laws (since harshness does make people stop activities such as drug use, prostitution, and the likes).
But who says they will be harsh you say. Well they get to decide, as they are the leaders now. No checks, no balances, just them.
Monarchies have problems as well, think Nero, Charles X, or some other piss poor person like the current leader of N. Korea.
Face it, if you died (and presuming Buddha was correct) and were reincarnated as a woman you would find a Republic to be the best form of Government.
I think you won't support a Democracy, but if you wish to we can toss the dice there as well. So shall we dance Justinian? Or will you concede before I wash the spears?
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