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This subject matter is contentious only due to falsehood, which, leads me to divert away for a moment before returning to principled democracy.
Perfect information is a concept that, if you think about it, is synonymous with education, science, and religion. In other words a living human being reaches for something. What is that something? The mind does not simply open and wait for anything to fill it.
Perfect information is a concept that, if you could get it, allows the person to do anything and everything imaginable to the limits of possibility. The opposite of perfect information, in contrast, is insanity, or, perfect falsehood.
What, then, is the perfect information version of democracy? Please note that I cannot provide the answer because I am not perfect. I need help. I need to propose a version of democracy for you to reject or confirm as being false or true, less false, or more true. You may simply ignore my version too.
Democracy is a concept that places every single living human being equal according to the concept of law.
Above is one try at describing the perfect information example of democracy as a principle. That version is inadequate because that version does not contain a description of the concept called "LAW".
Here is where a more recognizable term may help. Try to call into being a term that describes an ability to cause someone to do what you instruct them to do and this ability that you now have does not account for the person you control. In other words you can control the actions of this other person even if the other person does not want to be controlled.
What is the term that you dream up for this power to force other people to do things, or not do things, that you decide will be done, or not done, by other people?
Along with this concept of how you can over power other people it is important to recognize something inclusive in this power. You do not have to do what you make other people do and you do not have to stop doing what you make other people stop doing.
What is the word for this concept of power that you have over other people?
If you can come up with a better term, then, let me know. I will use the term crime.
Back to my inadequate description of democracy where the sentence used a term called "Law".
Democracy is a concept that places every single living human being equal according to the concept of law.
I can try again and this time I will use the term: "Crime".
Democracy is a concept that places every single living human being equal according to a concept of crime.
If the reader has managed to create a term that describes how someone can overpower another person and they, the reader, finds the term "Force" to work for them, then, I must object strongly. Force and Power are physics terms.
Example: The power of the sun forces molecules to accelerate.
The power of the sun forced the human being to succumb from exposure.
The power of the sun forced the water to evaporate and begin the cycle of life on earth.
Can you see the validity of my objection for using the terms Power and Force?
Power and Force are essential parts of physical life without which there can be no life - at all. That is not an example of perfect information; however - we can test that last sentence for validity. Stop breathing and see how long you can last without forcing the air in and out of your lungs.
Democracy is, and only is, a concept that intends to make no man or woman, no human being, a legal criminal. No one, according to democracy, is above the law. Each person, in democracy, is above the law.
That last sentence may cause someone to raise their hand. Law is a creation of mankind. I can reword that last paragraph to help make my statement obvious.
Democracy is, and only is, a concept that intends to make no one a legal criminal. No one is above natural law. Everyone is above man made law.
Democracy must account for natural law. Democracy must not, ever, create a legal criminal.
Perhaps this angle of attack on the problem of finding perfect information is inadequate. An example may suffice to bring this angle of view into view.
Democracy must not, ever, place one person outside any man made law. That, by definition, is placing someone outside the law. That is the creation of an outlaw - on purpose.
Everyone is above man made law. Everyone is able to make man made law. Everyone can and does make man made law. No one, according to democracy, is outside their own man made law.
A term that describes this angle of view is Universality. That is the 'if it is good for the goose then it is good for the gander' rule.
That is the limit of democracy. Any other rule is outside the concept of democracy.
An easy way to see, to accurately identify, anyone who volunteers to step outside the one democratic rule is someone, anyone, overpowering an innocent person.
That is easy to see. Someone overpowering an innocent person is someone who volunteers to make himself above the one man made law. That person is a democrat in that he votes to make another rule. That person is a democrat in that he decides to exercise his ability to make democratic rules. That person is not a democrat in that his rule takes away another person's rule making power.
That person is above man made law, lke every other democrat, that person is not a democrat when his rule removes another democrats rule making power.
That is democracy. Everyone is above man made law. Everyone is able to make rules. Everyone can volunteer to be a democrat so long as the rules they make do not interfere with rules made by anyone else. A democrat that makes a rule removing someone else's rule making power removes himself from the democratic rule of universality.
The democratic ideal, then, is when everyone is the King. No one is a subject of the King.
In practice there are problems with the ideal of democracy because people do, in fact, commit crimes against the innocent.
If perfect information were possible, then, everyone would know how to avoid being a victim of a crime.
Therefore; ideal democracy must identify all crimes before they happen and avoid them.
Here is a very simple method by which that democratic ideal can be accomplished:
Do not legalize crime. Do not give people the power to commit crimes. Do not make crimes legal. Do not pay people for commiting crimes. Do no reward people for committing crimes.
Before I receive the inevitable criticism for my wild idealism I can easily prove three example of legal criminals.
Joseph Stalin
Adolph Hitler
George Bush
Democracy does not reward those people for their crimes.
Democracy is not majority rule. Majority rule makes legal criminals out of the majority. That is outside the rule of Universality in a big way. Majority rule is a concept whereby the majority becomes outlaws like a massive concentration of Stalins, Hitlers, and Bushes.
Where do YOU think Stalin, Hitler, and Bush get their POWER?
I am a write in candidate because I believe in the principle of democracy. I do not believe in majority rule. Make no one below the law of universality.
No one