(March 22, 2025 at 11:34 am)Hippea Fly Guy Wrote:(March 22, 2025 at 10:45 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Democracy is not based on religious mores and ethics.Fair enough, share where it derives it's authority? There are no natural law parallels prohibitions or proscriptions for stealing, deception or killing these are all effective survival strategies rewarded in nature and anathema to democracy. Clearly it's not based on anything natural. It's not nature, evolution and biology that has an issue with LGBTQ, those objections come from society, governed by mob rule (your Democracy) based on something other than objective reality and natural selection.
First, no country has a true Democracy. They have "representative democracy" or "Republic" at best.
The U.S. Democratic system is partly based on the government of ancient Rome. It gives enough power to various classes of society so that they feel their voices are heard. There may be moral philosophy behind the concepts of "one person, one vote", but in the end the system has to promote stability.
Democracy gives the governed a say over their lot in life. I say that is a moral imperative, but it isn't actually required for stability. A brutal dictatorship can be stable if it listens to the people just enough to quell rebellion. The rest comes from control of media and instant suppression of dissent.
As for community-positive vs selfish action, those have nothing to do with democracy. Collective action have clear survival strategies for a clan or group, and are always at odds with selfishness. A stable society will find ways to balance these in a way that people can support. Good law is a benefit even to those who would prefer to screw over others, even if they can't see it.
Moral systems come from a combination of complex human nature, and human-generated philosophies that we agree should benefit us all if universally followed.
