<div dir="ltr">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? </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 3:25 AM, carlo von lynX <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lynX@pirate.my.buttharp.org" target="_blank">lynX@pirate.my.buttharp.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 05:18:27PM -0700, Paul Tidwell wrote:<br>
> What I'm getting at is ordinary citizens will get better at drafting law if<br>
> they go with their disposition towards direct democracy.<br>
<br>
</span>In Germany we are currently experience the worst of bad examples<br>
of bad use of direct democracy. The "AfD" employs multiple choice<br>
web-based forms to poll their party base for their opinions on<br>
things and assembles the programme this way (so I was told by one<br>
representative - it could be limited to Berlin city for now).<br>
The resulting programme is terrible: an obscene collection of<br>
unreflected prejudices including racism and homophobia.<br>
<br>
Luckily the Icelandic Pirates are well aware of these risks and<br>
handling the thing much more carefully, also the Icelandic popu-<br>
lation possibly has better skills at dealing with participatory<br>
democracy than most other European nations, even including<br>
Switzerland.<br>
<br>
Still, I can't but repeat to be careful about the use of any<br>
simplifying or ideological demagoguery: most good political<br>
approaches have several ways to do them very wrong. Be rational.<br>
Be fact-driven. Learn from <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.07723" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.<wbr>07723</a> and<br>
similar research work when entering the territory of democratic<br>
participation.<br>
<br>
We think they *have* to learn, for all of us as a prototype,<br>
but even they could fail and drop into isolationism and racism<br>
by moving their support en bloc from the Pirates to some<br>
nationalist Icelandic movement - this way failing to address<br>
the problems humanity is facing, focusing on merely surviving<br>
by themselves as the sea levels rise and pollution destroys<br>
the preconditions for independence.<br>
<br>
To me it also seems realistic that nuclear warfare will be<br>
back on the menu if we don't fix world governance soon.<br>
<br>
The responsability on Icelandic Pirates is huge. If there<br>
wasn't a terrible language barrier I would want to contribute,<br>
even if only by pointing out mistakes the rest of the Pirate<br>
movement has already made and really don't need repetition.<br>
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