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Originally posted by hermit22
... but I don't think it can be valid in a state that isn't a democracy, or of some other form where the people (theoretically) are in charge.
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Of course, if we decide to link democracy with assent we've just justified, at least in the mind of the terrorist, the 911 attacks on civilians. Does voting equal assent? Our voting participation numbers may have some importance.
Silence is not assent, nor inaction approval.
Russotto makes a valid point, are we to waste our lives participating in politics or throwing bombs because we had the bad luck of being born after the fall of the Republic? I don't think so, especially when the great mass of people still think we can play empire without paying a price for it.