RE: Is republic better than monarchy?
September 10, 2022 at 11:50 am
(This post was last modified: September 10, 2022 at 12:00 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Once we start adding caveats, we can apply the same to either form, sure...but the caveats themselves do seem to suggest that we see and understand that problem with the form. Republics, for example, distribute that risk...but only a hair more widely - in practice. If, however, our caveats for one have the effect of more closely approximating the other...well. Point is seemingly made. The one can be ok insomuch as it replicates the effect of the other. If, meanwhile the other replicating the effect of the one amounts to all of the ways it's seen to be failing.....The other, then, is the superior.
Simply (likely to be unrepresentatively so) we assess forms of government based on whether they produce more or less of a set of disfavored outcomes. We left monarchies (insomuch as we have and where we have)..because they just weren't working for us. I can see some hypothetical monarchy outperforming all other forms, and working harder and better for us than other forms - but that hypothetical monarchy doesn't seem to be represented often, if ever, by a monarchy-in-reality. It's the mythical benevolent totalitarian dictatorship that every despot invokes in their own bids to be dictator.
Can you think of any examples of that hypothetical monarchy in history?
Simply (likely to be unrepresentatively so) we assess forms of government based on whether they produce more or less of a set of disfavored outcomes. We left monarchies (insomuch as we have and where we have)..because they just weren't working for us. I can see some hypothetical monarchy outperforming all other forms, and working harder and better for us than other forms - but that hypothetical monarchy doesn't seem to be represented often, if ever, by a monarchy-in-reality. It's the mythical benevolent totalitarian dictatorship that every despot invokes in their own bids to be dictator.
Can you think of any examples of that hypothetical monarchy in history?
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