[pp.int.general] One good, one bad

[Brian McNeil]

On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 11:14 +0100, Christian Hufgard wrote:
> Boris Turovskiy wrote:
> > Even taking the number of seats as the measure of power (which is
> > false), you are wrong. On the contrary, if a country with 100
> > inhabitants gets 10 seats and a country with 10 inhabitants gets 1 seat,
> > it's a strong skew in favour of the larger country.
> 
> That's why is pretty strange, to think in countries, if you want to have a
> government for more than one. Let all 110 inhabitants vote for the 11
> seats. Of course, the 10 inhabitants will have less influence - but since
> they are the minority, why should it not be that way?

Have you never heard the expression, "Democracy is two wolves and a
sheep voting on what's for dinner"?


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