Of course it can and has happened. You have to ask yourself whether those societies were actually free and open, which I know sounds like a cop-out.
Of course it can and has happened. You have to ask yourself whether those societies were actually free and open, which I know sounds like a cop-out.
It is always the people saying how democracy is flawed and we should be more like China that are also trying to crack down on conspiracy theories.
It is entirely plausible that a free and open society is better than the alternatives on several different bases, despite the possibility that it could all go wrong and end up as becoming one of the alternatives. There is no evidence in human history that society has any stable points, let alone that it has desirable points of stability.
> Of course it can and has happened. You have to ask yourself whether those societies were actually free and open, which I know sounds like a cop-out.
... it also has elements of the No True Scotsman fallacy.