Historian: The ancient Greeks failed to recognize that, morally, Conclusion democracy is no improvement over monarchy. ██ ██ █████ ███ ██ ██████████ ██ ████ ███ █████ ██ ██████ ███ ██████ ██ ██████ ███ █ ███████████ ██ ██ ██ ██ ████ █████ ██ █████ ████ █████ ██ ████████ █████ ██ ████ █ ██████████ ██ ████████████
The historian argues that people, collectively, should not have the power to guide government. His support is that an individual person should not have the power to guide government. On this basis, he concludes that democracy should not be morally preferred to monarchy.
This is the cookie-cutter flaw of confusing a part with the whole. Each individual person may be unworthy of exercising sole power, but that doesn’t mean a collection of people is necessarily unworthy of exercising power. For example, it’s possible that people use power more responsibly when it’s shared.
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