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    How do you build such a system though?

    With a constitution that’s can’t be modified without a referendum

    How do you construct a system which has the authority to prevent corrupt individuals from oppressing others, but doesn’t oppress people itself?

    By fighting corruption instead of building a society on top of it

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      6 months ago

      With a constitution that’s can’t be modified without a referendum

      Bruh, the last time my country’s constitution got changed was through a referendum that made gay marriage impossible.

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        Which country? was the referendum fair or rigged?

        There’s a precondition for a democracy to work which is a fair voting process, this includes free and non monopolized access to information. I don’t think it’s hard to write a constitution that is not fixed and that still grant essential rights to people.

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          Croatia. Completely fair, the referendum was the hottest topic in all media for weeks if not months and absolutely everyone who had an opinion on the matter could vote. Do you actually think most people out there aren’t still homophobic as hell?

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      By fighting corruption instead of building a society on top of it

      But how? How do you enforce the fight against corruption without a system which itself is vulnerable to corruption?

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        You don’t have to enforce it, you should not promote it and not making rolemodels out of corrupted people. Have you ever heard of kids being teach in school that corruption is bad? Me personally never

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          You were never taught that corruption is bad? I was. I was also told not to lie, cheat, steal, harm others, etc. I think most people were, and yet we still have crime. D.A.R.E. told entire generations of kids that drugs are bad, and yet people still use drugs.

          How do you prevent people from promoting corruption and making role models of the corrupt? That requires some method of enforcement, otherwise you might as well be wishing on a star.