[MD] Democracy

[Ian Glendinning]

Ham, Craig, Woods et al ...

OK. We don't need a state to structure "all" of society, but we do
have to identify "cases" where it is "reasonable" to do so ... ie
reasonable to invoke social patterns to enforce "some" structure. (And
resaonable must now be considered in a MoQist sense .. or we'll just
get all the old answers again.)

This is just a starting point (and a vey old one at that).

This is all I mean by "governance" ... organizing those "cases", and
organizing when and where (in actual practice) the society of
individuals at large gets a say in decision-making in that
"organization".

Woods, don't tell me the status-quo is the best we can come up with
;-) I don't want us to go back to first principles and start again,
but I do want to improve on SOMist reality.

Regards
Ian

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 2:23 AM,  <craigerb at comcast.net> wrote:
> [Ham]
>> we don't need a State to structure society.
>
> Good point.  We should try to limit the state to cases
> where we can justify forcing compliance.
> Craig
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