Is Representative Government rational?
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Original Question
Is the paradigm of Representative Government a rational endeavor for intelligent humans? There is no requirement of intelligence or education in order to be elected as a Public Servant. If all Public servants are less intelligent and less educated than ordinary citizens how can Representation ever be actually 'representative' when the representatives are incapable of representing anything but their own self interest, by their own limits of cognition...
There are a plethora of more intelligent and participative methods of Governance which are infinitely better for human beings as an intelligent lifeform... All are better than the current paradigm built on lies, manipulation, fiction, violence, coercion, and force - all principles antithetical of Freedom, Independence, and Liberty. Why do we choose to live under what amounts to a puerile populist mentality of 'gang-warfare' under 'mob-rules' while calling every other 'Gang' criminals because they have different philosophies of acceptable behavior?
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Hello, and welcome.
I'm confused - are you giving us your opinion, or presenting a piece of work and asking if we think there are any fallacies in it?
The purpose of this website is to point out fallacious arguments; it's not a general debate forum. If you're giving your personal view here, then there are other sites available for that.
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Perhaps you could reword your post in a way that we could examine the fallacy. As it stands right now you have posted, more or less, an opinion. For example
"Representative Government means that less intelligent and less educated people are placed in positions of power and responcibility but, due to their limits of cognition, they only end up representing their own self-interests. Therefore, Representative Government should be abolished and be replaced with a system which possesses more intelligence and has more participative methods of governance."
Some possible fallacies in operation include:
alleged certainty
appeal to consequences
appeal to emotion
appeal to extremes
appeal to fear
appeal to self-evident truth
appeal to stupidity
appeal to emotional language
biased sample fallacy
And probably a host of other fallacies. But that should suffice