Voting and power

Posted on June 18, 2009 by PaulVK

If injustice is defined as powerlessness, then you can never rectify injustice by means of a vote. The moment a majority is achieved the opposition is now by definition the powerless.

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2 Responses to Voting and power

  1. Eric's avatar Eric says:
    June 18, 2009 at 1:02 pm

    I’m powerless over a lot but not unjustly (I don’t have any power over your blog posts). Maybe injustice is being powerlessness to counteract violations of life and property. But certainly your post points to the evil of unrestrained democracy.

  2. paulvk's avatar paulvk says:
    June 18, 2009 at 4:07 pm

    I wrote this to push back against two assumptions:

    1. The definition that powerlessness equals injustice.
    2. The hubris behind the assumption that democracy can abolish injustice.

    Powerlessness may in fact be as symptom of an injustice. Democracy is a valuable tool that can be used to rectify injustice. In both cases we overplay our hand. Injustice is something that ultimately can only be finally dealt with by God. We are called to do justice but we ought to have a healthy knowledge of the limits (powerlessness) even within our created goodness.

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