cross-posted from: https://lemy.lol/post/23035781
People who still look for or look up to a strong leader still have this feudalistic mindset, a by-product of colonialism.
They are unaware that the true rulers in a democracy are the people themselves.
The public is the King in a democracy.
The government is our servant.
We pay their salaries via taxes. We decide whether to keep them or fire them every five years.
So if you want to improve your nation. You need a strong, responsible, educated and progressive voter. The true leaders of the country. The country will only go as far as the voters demand.
So, know your right. Know your power. And if the servant tries to walk all over you and steal your power, it's time to kick them out.
Don't settle for less. Don't waste your vote on communal or racial comeraderie because that's how conmen have conned the commonwealth for thousands of years.
Don't give up your power unconditionally because the guy has the same religion or caste as you because then they can keep looting you unconditionally.
Remember it's your job. You have to end corruption, you have to fix inflation, you have to make sure your women are safe, you have to make sure your everyone in your family and neighbourhood is employed, you have to make sure public schools and hospitals provides the highest quality of service. And the government is the servant you delegated these jobs to.
If that servant fails to make any progress. If they have made it worse. If they have hired corrupt subordinates instead of putting them in jail. If that servant ignores sexual violence based on caste or ethnicity. If that servant fails to provide the jobs they promised. How dare that servant stole all the power from the majority and lied to them that the minorities are stealing their power. It's time to fire that servant before he comes for your freedom.
All I asked here is a question, and suggested the most probable answer in most simple form. You could have given a different answer, but...
You don't explain your notion of civilization, but want me to deal with your notion of common sense, justice and civilized behavior.
Why?
Shri Ambedkar, unapologetically disagrees:
“As to the accusation that the Draft Constitution has reproduced a good part of the provisions of the Government of India Act, 1935, I make no apologies. There is nothing to be ashamed of in borrowing. It involves no plagiarism. Nobody holds any patent rights in the fundamental ideas of a Constitution….”
There used to be entire chapter worth of material to mug up for exams on which feature of Indian constitution is borrowed from which white country in textbooks.
Did you skip all of that in school?
There. You just lost entire argument by Godwin's Law. Prepare better for next time.
But what? Answer your misdirections? There is only one type of civilization - one based on justice and empathy. But you project it as a white man's creation. This is just deceitful. A malicious justification.
Because reasonable people with common sense all come to the same conclusion about justice and civilized behavior. Only people with delusions of past glory, racial supremacy and autocracy reach different conclusions. I don't need to pander those tendencies of yours.
Ambedkar only borrowed ideas. That doesn't mean that it's foreign. Your own quotation says so - "It involves no plagiarism". I called it unique to India because it's uniquely adapted to the conditions in India. It also has a depth that none others have. But you keep insisting that it's a foreign invention. I would rather live in Ambedkar's India than Manu's India. What you're aspiring for is a barbaric order that the citizens are not particularly found of.
Evidently, being in school is meaningless for people like you. We have learned enough to see the warning signs and consequences of an oppressive regime instead of clinging to technicalities to make up frivolous justifications for it.
"Godwin's law can be applied mistakenly or abused as a distraction, a diversion, or even censorship, when miscasting an opponent's argument as hyperbole even when the comparison made by the argument is appropriate." Nazi comparison is entirely justified here since we are talking about the importance of the constitution and the slide into authoritarianism. So perhaps you should learn that it's hypocritical to use Godwin's law indiscriminately like you do.
No amount of preparation is enough to talk to authoritarian apologizers like you. You can't be reasoned with logic or reality. You live in your own delusions. You can live in the hell of your fantasies. Please spare the rest of us. We have no intention to go back to the dark ages with the likes of you.
I didn't ask anything about "type of civilizations." Pay attention.
"Reasonable people" is again a loaded term which you'll try to avoid defining. Maybe stick to using words that you actually understand?
Lol. You want to suck up to ambedkar's little cult more than following his logic to its natural end. If you undetstand nothing else, take nothing else from this discussion, take this basic logic: one can borrow/steal/usurp only what belongs to others.
FYI, ambedkar never owned India. You can never live in his India.
This discuss is a sifficient showcase of what you have learned. Foresight is far from thay.
Did you forgot that calling something justified is not sufficient to make it justified?
Again?
You need to learn what logic means and what reality is, and how the two are related. Education has clearly failed you @4dpuzzle@beehaw.org.