[pp.int.general] My thoughts at present

[Paul Tidwell]

I don't understand ANY form of prejudice myself it really confuses me.
People are not born with that hatred it has to be taught to them. Why are
peole homophobic?

On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 3:25 AM, carlo von lynX <lynX at pirate.my.buttharp.org
> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 05:18:27PM -0700, Paul Tidwell wrote:
> > What I'm getting at is ordinary citizens will get better at drafting law
> if
> > they  go with their disposition towards direct democracy.
>
> In Germany we are currently experience the worst of bad examples
> of bad use of direct democracy. The "AfD" employs multiple choice
> web-based forms to poll their party base for their opinions on
> things and assembles the programme this way (so I was told by one
> representative - it could be limited to Berlin city for now).
> The resulting programme is terrible: an obscene collection of
> unreflected prejudices including racism and homophobia.
>
> Luckily the Icelandic Pirates are well aware of these risks and
> handling the thing much more carefully, also the Icelandic popu-
> lation possibly has better skills at dealing with participatory
> democracy than most other European nations, even including
> Switzerland.
>
> Still, I can't but repeat to be careful about the use of any
> simplifying or ideological demagoguery: most good political
> approaches have several ways to do them very wrong. Be rational.
> Be fact-driven. Learn from http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.07723 and
> similar research work when entering the territory of democratic
> participation.
>
> We think they *have* to learn, for all of us as a prototype,
> but even they could fail and drop into isolationism and racism
> by moving their support en bloc from the Pirates to some
> nationalist Icelandic movement - this way failing to address
> the problems humanity is facing, focusing on merely surviving
> by themselves as the sea levels rise and pollution destroys
> the preconditions for independence.
>
> To me it also seems realistic that nuclear warfare will be
> back on the menu if we don't fix world governance soon.
>
> The responsability on Icelandic Pirates is huge. If there
> wasn't a terrible language barrier I would want to contribute,
> even if only by pointing out mistakes the rest of the Pirate
> movement has already made and really don't need repetition.
>
>
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