By your reckoning countries are either free or not free. Clearly some countries are more free than others. Clearly this indicates degrees of freedom. Clearly all of the freedom indices out there that demonstrate this means nothing to you or you've overlooked them. Clearly, freedom is not a binary.

But we'll have to agree to disagree, since, clearly, there's no way you'll ever change your mind.


So what? How does that make your system a system where the people have any say in decision making? It doesn't.


You said his sentiments weren't valid because we live in larger communities. See, I'm saying, no matter the size of the community, he would certainly be against any system that divorces the citizens from decision-making - a system like yours, and a system like the current one.