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You can't please everyone, so focus on majority.
While that sounds like the best solution on the surface, it isn't actually fair in a polarized society. Suppose that there are 10 issues in the country on which groups A and B are divided. Group A is 60% of the population and group B is 40%. It would be most fair (assuming all issues are of equal importance) if 6 issues were decided like group A wants, and 4 like group B wants. But in a democracy, the result is that all 10 issues are decided like group A wants.
This isn't much of a problem if the groups are different people for each issue. But if society is polarized, and a minority wants many things differently, they suffer from this.
their rights are someones political points
Rights are always political points. That doesn't make them less valid or less important.
they've accepted this place as what it is
I'll quote myself: That doesn't mean they are happy with the situation.
Also, you realize that your statement is equivalent to "my country treats its people horribly, and I've given up on the idea that this can ever be fixed", right?
Imagine you're born in some poor african country. Yet, there are people who menaged to get out of poverty. Little number, but still possible. And they even had less chances than most of us.
There are two things wrong with this statement:
First, I would summarize what you describe as "it's massively unfair, but it is still possible". You say "so it's not a problem". I say "so that is massively unfair and needs to be fixed".
Second, the fact that a few people manage to get out of poverty doesn't mean that it was possible for everyone. It may have been a matter of luck more than anything else. "Someone else did it, so it's your own fault if you didn't" is just wrong. It's not only accepting a broken system, but in addition to that it's blaming the victims of that system for it.
You can always emigrate to another place you prefer more.
Many people cannot. If you're born in poverty, you cannot travel to emigrate. If you're from the "wrong" country, other countries won't let you in.
While that sounds like the best solution on the surface, it isn't actually fair in a polarized society. Suppose that there are 10 issues in the country on which groups A and B are divided. Group A is 60% of the population and group B is 40%. It would be most fair (assuming all issues are of equal importance) if 6 issues were decided like group A wants, and 4 like group B wants. But in a democracy, the result is that all 10 issues are decided like group A wants.
This isn't much of a problem if the groups are different people for each issue. But if society is polarized, and a minority wants many things differently, they suffer from this.
their rights are someones political points
Rights are always political points. That doesn't make them less valid or less important.
they've accepted this place as what it is
I'll quote myself: That doesn't mean they are happy with the situation.
Also, you realize that your statement is equivalent to "my country treats its people horribly, and I've given up on the idea that this can ever be fixed", right?
Imagine you're born in some poor african country. Yet, there are people who menaged to get out of poverty. Little number, but still possible. And they even had less chances than most of us.
There are two things wrong with this statement:
First, I would summarize what you describe as "it's massively unfair, but it is still possible". You say "so it's not a problem". I say "so that is massively unfair and needs to be fixed".
Second, the fact that a few people manage to get out of poverty doesn't mean that it was possible for everyone. It may have been a matter of luck more than anything else. "Someone else did it, so it's your own fault if you didn't" is just wrong. It's not only accepting a broken system, but in addition to that it's blaming the victims of that system for it.
You can always emigrate to another place you prefer more.
Many people cannot. If you're born in poverty, you cannot travel to emigrate. If you're from the "wrong" country, other countries won't let you in.
