Spottedwind
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Joined: Aug. 2008
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| Quote (midwifetoad @ Sep. 10 2008,11:43) | | Politics is a game, and intentions don't equal accomplishment. Changing the rules, as in reforming or restructuring voting and representation, will be followed by adaptations, just a surely as bacteria evolve resistance to antibiotics. |
Of course adapatations will happen and people in power will try to figure out how to stay in power. But that doesn't mean that we shouldn't make the effort.
It is just like evolution; one species does not just give up because another is just going to change. They both keep changing and one hopes to overcome the other. (This make evolution sound aware and intentional, which I don't mean to do.) And if species A does eventually dominate, it wasn't because species B gave up but because they got out competed (or other factors).
Whatever the case, saying 'don't try to improve things because they'll just change too' doesn't seem different than 'don't try to make new anitbiotics because they'll just adapt'. Maybe the changes will help, and maybe they won't but the Red Queen shouldn't be a reason to avoid trying.
| Quote | | The only useful test of a political system is whether -- in fact, not theory -- it produces alternations of control among the competing tribes. |
I don't think I fully agree with this but I do generally agree that the juggling over power is good. Keeping power from being too concentrated makes it harder to abuse. Not impossible, but harder.
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