Do we prefer democracy only for moral reason
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well yes. Democracy does not lead to ‘virtuous’ or ‘moral’ behaviour in the citizens. No form of government reliably does this: there are limits to how much it can do, however constituted.
And ‘morality’, narrowly defined, often leads to idiocies like Prohibition in the US and the British divorce laws of the 1930s. These were laws that were intended to make people ‘better’ and only led to suffering and increased criminality.
But I would maintain that in supporting a form of government that involves everyone and excludes no one, that allows all opinions to be heard, that makes laws by discussion and vote and not the dictates of any single person, that appoints officials on their merits and subjects representatives to regular challenges at the ballot box, that creates a communal life that is built around law and mutual respect we are doing a thing that is for the good of us all. It may not force us to be ‘moral’ (whatever we conceive that to mean) but it does stop up the paths to immorality that are part and parcel of governments built on hereditary privilege, raw force, wealth or some form of unchallengeable dogma (whether secular or religious).
And by establishing and passing on such governments we benefit ourselves and everyone else. And what could be more moral than that?
well yes. Democracy does not lead to ‘virtuous’ or ‘moral’ behaviour in the citizens. No form of government reliably does this: there are limits to how much it can do, however constituted.
And ‘morality’, narrowly defined, often leads to idiocies like Prohibition in the US and the British divorce laws of the 1930s. These were laws that were intended to make people ‘better’ and only led to suffering and increased criminality.
But I would maintain that in supporting a form of government that involves everyone and excludes no one, that allows all opinions to be heard, that makes laws by discussion and vote and not the dictates of any single person, that appoints officials on their merits and subjects representatives to regular challenges at the ballot box, that creates a communal life that is built around law and mutual respect we are doing a thing that is for the good of us all. It may not force us to be ‘moral’ (whatever we conceive that to mean) but it does stop up the paths to immorality that are part and parcel of governments built on hereditary privilege, raw force, wealth or some form of unchallengeable dogma (whether secular or religious).
And by establishing and passing on such governments we benefit ourselves and everyone else. And what could be more moral than that?
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